Santiago Vila writes: > > This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of > > the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across > > the distributions the name and format of the file which contains this > > type of information. > > Interesting. Is that file in /etc because of it being a static, > non-shareable file (like /etc/debian_version), or it is also meant to > be changed by the sysadmin?
It'd be pretty rare that a sysadmin would want to change it - although there are some programs around that attempt to work out what distro they're on and refuse to install/run if its not the right one - so it can be useful to be able to lie to them :-) > Could you point me to the specs for that > file? (i.e. something that tells me what should be its contents for > Debian 2.2 and for Debian woody/sid). Its also used by the lsb_release (package lsb-release) program. There is a man page for it and the latest version is available from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1107&release_id=19799 (version 1.3 is in unstable - I'm not sure if 1.4 has been put in yet as it was only released a couple of days ago). Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Open Source Ice-Cream
