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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Chip Turner wrote:
> 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).
or just:
if (-e '/etc/redhat-release') {
my $release = `rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release';
# Do something with $release
}
On a real redhat system you get "redhat-release-<version>" and on mandrake
you get "mandrake-release-<version>". However, as I discussed with Andy
privately - probably the best (albeit slightly wrong) thing to do is make
it so that mandrake == redhat for config - since all the system files are
all in the same place with both distros.
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