Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:29:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> My test, doing a dist-upgrade on a Sarge system to move it to Etch, showed
> that dist-upgrade does not change the contents of /etc/debian-version.
> Also, the last modified date on /etc/debian-version is jul 26 2004, which
> is the time when I originally installed Sarge on that machine.
>
> My concern is what can this be used for? It is clearly not useful as a way
> of finding out what is actually installed on the machine. If it is truly
> whatever one wants to put there, then it is hardly useful to scripts,
> which was suggested earlier as its use. So what is it for?
>
Following the recent discussion on this, I changed the entry in
my /etc/debian_version to "Windows XP" to see what error messages
I might get...
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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