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. -- <Matt/> Details: FastNet Software Ltd - XML, Perl, Databases. Tagline: High Performance Web Solutions Web Sites: http://come.to/fastnet http://sergeant.org Available for Consultancy, Contracts and Training.Thread Previous | Thread Next