[lsb-discuss] Re: New uname option to query exact OS distribution

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Thu Aug 26 14:39:38 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:28 +0200, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
> Tobias Burnus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     Will someone implement this feature ?
> 
>     Today, I start to implement, and see that on rpm-based distro, 
> likes: RedHat, Yellowdog, FTOSX, etc
>     haves the file, "/etc/'distro-name'-release that may be got from rpm 
> commands.
> 
>     I also note that generally, all these distro haves no differents at 
> all between company name and distro name:
> 
>     * Company name: YellowDog,
>     * Distro name = "Company-Name" Linux
> 
>     We instead adopt vendor: "ftosx", more similar to other 
> rpm-implementations, and use Vendor: Future Technologies Inc
>     inside the of "futuretg".
>     Mandrake adopt a similar approach, because the name of the OS is 
> different that the name of company, MandrakeSoft.
> [...]

Again, why not use lsb_release to get this information? Getting a vendor
to support lsb_release has to be easier than getting them to patch uname
to work to contain the distribution info (since the information you want
is not available in the uname syscall).






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