-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2013 06:39 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 03/14/2013 04:43 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:09:24 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> presence of /var/lib/rpm /etc/os-release /etc/redhat-release >> >> And perhaps a run-time check, such as an RPM based query, which >> would only work if the RPM database is filled with details about >> installed files. >> >> $ rpm -qa|wc -l 1601 $ rpm -qf /sbin/init >> systemd-198-3.fc19.x86_64 $ rpm -qf $(which bash) >> bash-4.2.45-1.fc19.x86_64 >> > > There's no standard way I know of that's guaranteed to work (I > think LSB has some bits that could help but since you can't depend > on them being installed or even available everywhere it's pretty > much useless). > > You could take a look at how sos does this: > > https://github.com/sosreport/sosreport > > Sos is a support data collection tool written in python. The > upstream version now runs on Fedora, RHEL, RHEV, RHS, Debian, > Ubuntu, Mac OSX, and Windows. It abstracts package management in a > policy class - each target defines a policy which probes the > environment to determine whether it should be the active policy. So > for e.g. if /etc/fedora-release or /etc/redhat-release exists the > redhat policy is activated. > > This is fairly robust and lets you define hierarchies (e.g. the > Ubuntu policy extends Debian policy, and both Debian and Red Hat > policies inherit from a common LinuxPolicy) so that policies can > share common bits of implementation. > > The downside is that you have to create and maintain the policies > and either add support for each new flavour or provide generic fall > backs that do a reasonable job on unknown hosts. > > Regards, Bryn. > Interesting, I'll have a look. But the downside you mention is exactly the one I want to avoid. Having to handle a mapping between distributions and packaging systems. See the other message I just posted... Anyway thnk for this pointer. Theo. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFCFo4ACgkQEr8WrU8nPV1k6ACgtBe+PL4UVchJkEUOjfkyttkU uRwAoKE5FHLzSKKuHc1MC5LtETndvYRB =wN1i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
