[CentOS-devel] /etc/redhat-release

On 06/12/2014 12:35 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 11:29 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> On 06/12/2014 12:04 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
>>> 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_.
>>
>> the proper way for this is:
>> rpm -q --nosignature --qf "%{VERSION}" --whatprovides redhat-release
> 
> shouldnt that be system-release ?

not. it's not working on os 5.x. but the above working everywhere.

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