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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:55:15PM -0400, 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?
For Debian, read /etc/debian_version, which contains a single word.
Recent versions will contain the following:
Debian Version Contents of file
1.3 bo
2.0 hamm
2.1 slink
2.2 potato
Peace,
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