Re: Distribution name and version

[Burchard Steinbild <bs@suse.de>]

Hello,


On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Seva wrote:

> Is there any reason why a package whould need to know exact distribution
> name and version? Something like RHS's /etc/redhat-release?

That's the target of LSB:  to make exactly this unneccessary :)

>   -r, --release    print the operating system release
>   -s, --sysname    print the operating system name
> 
> add:
> 
>   -R, --RELEASE    print the distribution system release

I'd prefer LSB release.

>   -S, --SYSNAME    print the distribution system name

"LSB" 

> 
> which could just read it from /etc/dist-release
> 
> /Simon Epsteyn
> 
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