[wplug] Determining distro version (was: weird rsync error)

[Tom Rhodes]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:29:13 -0600 (MDT)
Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:

> Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > A command like "/sbin/wtflinuxflavor" would be really nice, all it
> > > needs to do is "echo You're running XXX" or
> > > "printf You're running ZZZ"
> > 
> > you mean something complicated like:
> > cat /etc/issue
> 
> This generally works, though if someone has changed the login
> banner it won't help.  You can also look for a file
> "/etc/*release" (e.g., /etc/redhat-release, /etc/debian-release),
> but I don't know if Ubuntu has that.  Of course uname gives the
> kernel version but doesn't tell you anything about userland.
> 
> There is an "lsb_release" command that should be present on all
> LSB-compliant distros and gives output in a standardized format.
> Other than that, there's no real consistent way to find out the
> distro version, though in theory it shouldn't matter so much since
> installers are supposed to check dependency versions individually.

If you mean check dependencies on packages, here is me:

apt-get ... nope, not there ... yum ... no package found, hmmm,

gunzip -c pkg.tgz | tar xvf - && cd pkgname && \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

yay!

-- 
Tom Rhodes