Re: Distribution identification

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Christopher Yeoh wrote:

> At 2003/11/13 23:10+0100  Michal Svec writes:
> > It would be nice if there could be a single way for this stuff.
> > It could be in, let's say, /etc/linux-release or even more
> > general in /etc/distribution, /etc/release, /etc/product or
> > /etc/identification or like that.
> > 
> > It should be script-parsable, for example something like this:
> > 
> >     VENDOR="SUSE"
> >     PRODUCT="SUSE Linux"
> >     RELEASE="9.0"
> >     VERSION="SP3"
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> We already have lsb_release which is included as part of an LSB
> compliant system:
> 
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/lsbrelease.html

Hmm, the lsb_release is a utility to get this info, while it still may be 
nice to have this in some system-wide file.

And I'd guess the "lsb_release" to show a version of the LSB, unrelated to 
other stuff, like the product name. Wouldn't be better to specify a more 
general and obvious name?

Regards
Michal
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