[CentOS-devel] enhancing /etc/*-release

[Karanbir Singh]

On 01/04/15 00:39, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:33:37PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 03/31/2015 10:00 PM, Howard Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31/03/2015 21:53, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>> what tools are these / can we reach out and help them get the right
>>>> content ? this solves the problem of establishing an upstream, giving
>>>> people who only need a lose knit baseline match and also giving people
>>>> the centos-7 release stream that we've been building up. At the time
>>>> of 7 1406 release, this was flagged up as the biggest issue that we
>>>> need to fix from the distro side of things. 
>>>
>>> Hmm, ok.  Can we put that data somewhere else instead (an
>>> /etc/redhat-upstream-release file or something) and revert the
>>> redhat-release change?  We can't expect everyone to run around updating
>>> their system management tools for a change in a minor point release :(
> 
> another less-than-optimal solution would be for app developers to
> start using lsb_release to find out what distro and release they
> are installing onto. of course, that's a different problem, in more
> than one way, at least one of which is that lsb_release is not installed
> by default.
> 
> I'm switching the app installer for the program I maintain (at work)
> to use lsb_release just because it's so much easier than  groping
> /etc/redhat-release.
> 


have you looked at /etc/os-release ? you can just source it and you get
the content needed. I believe most people are trying to drive towards
using that ( plus you dont need the lsb dep chain under it then )


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