On 03/27/2012 10:32 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:42:17PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
Fedora is using /etc/redhat-release file so you use the same handling for Fedora and RHEL then it's fine.
I also have a /etc/fedora-release on my f17. systemd people are pushing for standardization around http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
Christophe
Oh, didn't know about this, but when I'm looking at it, it reminds me of http://xkcd.com/927/ =) There is already /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/<type>-release etc. I'm aware of these not having very standardized format, but I don't see any standardized field in /etc/os-release that would tell me on what type of distribution this particular one was built. Maybe I'm the only one who wants to get this information using /etc/*-release, but I want to get it without keeping list of rpm-based distributions in the code and matching in them with the distribution name. In this particular case (I needed to know wherther I can use 'rpm' or not) it seems like the best to check for /etc/redhat-release. It is there even when you have /etc/<distribution>-release in there. Anyway, thanks for the info. Martin