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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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assuming the user isn't running off CVS rather than rsync. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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