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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/10/2014 06:28 PM, Daniel Ankers
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<div>On 10 June 2014 16:19, Fred Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi
all!<br>
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I think it was on this list, in the last week or so I saw
some comment<br>
about how some apps may grope the contents of
/etc/redhat-release when<br>
installing themselves, so as to figure how which OS they're
running on,<br>
and there was some mention of this not being the best of all
possible<br>
ideas.<br>
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Hi Fred,
<div>I would have thought that "lsb_release -a" would be far
more portable across varying different distributions and
versions.</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Dan</div>
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[root@wolfy ~]# echo "My personal distro release 1.0 ( wolfy's
finest ) " > /etc/redhat-release<br>
[root@wolfy ~]# lsb_release -a<br>
LSB Version:
:base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch<br>
Distributor ID: Mypersonaldistro<br>
Description: My personal distro release 1.0 ( wolfy's finest )<br>
Release: 1.0<br>
Codename: wolfy'sfinest<br>
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