Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:28:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents
> > of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the
> > same afterwards. Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no
> > way to test a script that has version dependency until it is released into
> > stable. This is, I think, a very strange way to do business.
> >
>
> So what? Etch has not been released? Perhaps it would be better if the
> file were named debian_release. Regardless, the point is to be able to
> differentiate among *stable* releases.
So it is really only useful to find out whether it's an obsolete
version or not? Does anyone know if there are any scripts that
actually use it?
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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