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

[terry mcintyre]

terry at terry-laptop:~$ lsb_release -d
Description:    Ubuntu 7.10

--- 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.
> 
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these
> ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"  
>  -Nick Danger
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Terry McIntyre &lt;terrymcintyre at yahoo.com&gt;

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Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874]


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