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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 <Frank.Pikelner@××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems |
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> | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems |
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> | distribution name and release version. The "lsb_release -ir" commands |
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> | seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of |
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> | popular distributions. I've tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 |
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> | text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support |
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> | "lsb_release -ir" command? If not how can I contact the developers to |
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> | request this? |
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> Not going to happen. We're not going to dignify LSB by adding that kind |
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> of nonsense... You can get the current release using: |
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> cat $(portageq portdir)/metadata/timestamp |
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Well that's just craptastic. Now can we just get all of the other |
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distros to define PORTDIR and include portageq as standard? Cause that |
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would be smart. |
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Look I'm not at all suggesting that we "dignify LSB" but what the o.p. |
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is suggesting is not at all a bad idea. |
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An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, |
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version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can |
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only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with |
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less frustration. |
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Scott. |
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