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Postings from October 1999
Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com> writes: > > >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. So we seem to look for _files_ (not links) of form /etc/*-release FWIW (next to nothing as far as I can tell) on SuSE 6.1: nick@bactrian:~ > ls /etc/*release /etc/SuSE-release nick@bactrian:~ > rpm -qf /etc/SuSE-release aaa_base-99.4.19-0 nick@bactrian:~ > The rpm probe seems useless... -- Nick Ing-Simmons