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Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org> writes:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to patch Configure to tell you the Linux
> > distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, others as folks supply the
> > information), and I'm unsure of how to best parse RedHat's
> > /etc/redhat-release file. I have the following 1 example:
> >
> > Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
> >
> > I'm guessing that the '6.1' is what would be most useful. Does anyone have
> > a variety of Red Hat systems around or enough familiarity with Red Hat to
> > say how stable that format is or give me other examples?
>
> Mandrake 6.0 gives:
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Linux Mandrake release 6.0 (Venus)
Great. Mandrake would just HAVE to pretend to be redhat. Of course,
it's based on redhat and is nearly identical at the level we care, but
it's still irksome.
For Configure...
if $test -f /etc/redhat-release
if $grep "Mandrake" /etc/redhat-release > /dev/null
then
osvers="Mandrake Linux"
else
osvers="Red Hat Linux"
fi
if $test "$osvers" != "Generic Linux"
then
tmp=`$sed 's/.*release \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/' /etc/redhat-release`
osvers="$osvers $tmp"
fi
fi
(Hope that helps the maintainer. I've tested it on the oddball
redhat's we have here and it works).
Chip
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