On 06/10/2014 06:28 PM, Daniel Ankers wrote: > On 10 June 2014 16:19, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us > <mailto:fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>> wrote: > > Hi all! > > I think it was on this list, in the last week or so I saw some comment > about how some apps may grope the contents of /etc/redhat-release when > installing themselves, so as to figure how which OS they're > running on, > and there was some mention of this not being the best of all possible > ideas. > > > Hi Fred, > I would have thought that "lsb_release -a" would be far more portable > across varying different distributions and versions. > Regards, > Dan > [root at wolfy ~]# echo "My personal distro release 1.0 ( wolfy's finest ) " > /etc/redhat-release [root at wolfy ~]# lsb_release -a 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 Distributor ID: Mypersonaldistro Description: My personal distro release 1.0 ( wolfy's finest ) Release: 1.0 Codename: wolfy'sfinest -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140610/d972d86b/attachment-0007.html>