Lenz Grimmer writes... BTW- Debian uses /etc/debian_version and also updates /etc/issue
>I guess naming it "linux-release" could be confused with the version >number of the linux kernel. What about /etc/distribution-release ? > >Some fields that could be part of this file: > >VENDOR : the Linux Distributor, e.g. Caldera, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, > Turbo Linux, etc. VENDOR sounds kind of commercial. How about "DISTRIBUTOR" or something? >NAME: the distribution name (e.g. TurboCluster Server, OpenLinux > eServer, SuSE IMAP Server) When Debian implements "flavors" those could go in this field. >VERSION: the distribution version Distributors will want their version numbers to sort properly so people can test against them. For example, if DISTRIBUTION = "Redhat" and VERSION >= "6.1" so it might be useful to have guidelines for version numbering. >ARCH: the hardware architecture, e.g. i386, alpha, PPC (not sure, if > this is useful) uname -m However this field maybe useful if you are installing to a chroot. Stuart Anderson writes... >Using a format such as > >FOO="bar" > >would allow scripts to source this file to gain access to the info while >remaining easy to parse from a program. and you could source it from a shell script. -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
