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At 10:03 PM +0100 10/26/99, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>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.
On Yellow Dog Linux, a PPC distribution that has nothing to do with
RedHat except it's modeled after it:
linux% cat /etc/redhat-release
Yellow Dog Linux (CS-1.1)
linux% rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release
yellowdog-release-CS_1.1-1
So don't go making too many assumptions just because
/etc/redhat-release exists. In this case, it's a symbolic link to
/etc/yellowdog-release.
>
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