Version & Distribution identification

[gk4 at us.ibm.com]

If /etc/*-release is going to become a trend, then perhaps we should
consider placing them in a subdirectory called /etc/release/

We should standardized the internal format of the file ie., (name colon
value) and/or an API to the data.

George Kraft IV
gk4 at us.ibm.com
512-838-2688; t/l 678-2688
IBM Linux Technology Center & Linux Standards
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/


John H Terpstra <jht at turbolinux.com> on 04/25/2000 01:07:35 PM

Please respond to john.terpstra at turbolinux.com

To:   Lenz Grimmer <grimmer at suse.de>
cc:   lsb-discuss at lists.linuxbase.org
Subject:  Re: Version & Distribution identification




On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this has been discussed before, but a couple of things
> > that I think would be useful as part of the LSB specification:
> >
> > - a file which identifies the version of the LSB to which
> >   the distribution is compliant against.
> >
> > - a file which contains the name and version of the distribution which
> >   would provide a standard way of working out which distro is
installed.
> >
> > I'd be happy to write up this formally for the specification if people
> > think its a good idea.
>
> I think it is a good idea. Some distributors already started this by
> creating a file /etc/<distribution>-release. For example, SuSE has the
> following:
>
> # cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SuSE Linux 6.4 (i386)
> VERSION = 6.4
>
> However, the file name is of course different on other distributions :)
> I guess it is /etc/RedHat-release on Red Hat.
>
> About the first question: what about /etc/FHS-Release? This could be part
> of the LSB-compatibility package.
>
> Bye,
>    LenZ
> --

For TurboLinux this file is /etc/turbolinux-release.

cheers,
John H Terpstra


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