<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 iunie 2014 21:39:15 EEST, Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2014-06-10, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 06/10/2014 06:01 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> lsb-release is useless, it pipes out the text read from /etc/redhat-release<br /></blockquote><br /> but lsb-release will give you relevant content even if you are on a<br /> distro that has no /etc/redhat-release<br /><br /> which is kind of the point of having a single tool that can be used<br /> across distros.<br /></blockquote><br /> How is running a program that isn't there any more useful t
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reading<br /> a file that isn't there?<br /></blockquote><br />If lsb-release isn't there, then the distro isn't LSB compliant. Many<br />third-party packages state LSB compliance as minimum requirements.<br /><br />--keith<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">quite often i do not install the lsb-release package. And I use CentOS almost exclusively for many years. On many systems, for all the organizations I work for</body></html>