Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Frank.Pikelner@××××××××.ca
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:45:31
Message-Id: B86F8BCEEED5184CA225E0CC10FF611608B167@bdc03srv04.bdc.int
1 >On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, Frank.Pikelner@××××××××.ca wrote:
2 >> If you "cat /etc/gentoo-release" it give back " Gentoo Base System
3 >> version 1.4.16".
4 >>
5 >> Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole,
6 >> there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system
7 as a
8 >> Gentoo distribution. If the distribution could support "lsb_release
9 -ir"
10 >> output, it would definitely be helpful.
11 >>
12 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
13 >since gentoo is NOT LSB compliant (and the chances are fat, that it
14 will never
15 >be), it would be just wrong, to give back a lsb-release version, is it
16 not?
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18 >From a developer point of view I would want something common that can be
19 accessed on a system that allows me to at least be able to identify the
20 distributions. The "lsb-release -ir" may not be the politically correct
21 command, but was a suggestion as it already exists on many
22 distributions.
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24 Also from a system administrators point of view it is helpful to know
25 the operating system running on a particular server if you are
26 responsible for managing a diverse environment with thousands of
27 systems.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version Phill MV <hiffyness@×××××.com>