[CentOS-devel] /etc/redhat-release

Thu Jun 12 10:04:57 UTC 2014
John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:58:31AM +0100, Dan Porter wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> You should checkout how Virtualmin does system version detection.
> 
> http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl
> http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt

Which does it the 100% wrong way.

Again, contents of /etc/*-release _can not be trusted_.






							John
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