On 10 iunie 2014 21:39:15 EEST, Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:
On 2014-06-10, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Karanbir Singh
mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 06/10/2014 06:01 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
lsb-release is useless, it pipes out the text read from
/etc/redhat-release
but lsb-release will give you relevant content even if you are on a distro that has no /etc/redhat-release
which is kind of the point of having a single tool that can be used across distros.
How is running a program that isn't there any more useful than
reading
a file that isn't there?
If lsb-release isn't there, then the distro isn't LSB compliant. Many third-party packages state LSB compliance as minimum requirements.
--keith
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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