-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2013 11:33 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 14.03.2013 19:25, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >> >> Yes I imagined that detecting /var/lib/rpm was one way to deal >> with the problem (but not /etc/*-release as this is exactly what >> I want to avoid: having to map distributions to packaging >> system). > > Maybe you have your reasons that I don't understand but package > management is distribution related. Generally Linux distributions > are built around package managers. There are rpm based ones like > Fedora, RH, SuSE and deb based like Debian, Ubuntu. There is opkg > in OpenWRT and something that I can't remember right now in Arch. > So package management is tightly related to Linux distro. Detecting > Linux distribution is easier than searching for rpm or dpkg > commands and checking if they are dominant package managers on the > system. > > > Mateusz Marzantowicz > Simply go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions and see the number of distributions. There are far fewer packaging systems than distributions, and I clearly do not want to maintain a map distribution -> packaging system. I know that these packaging systems are differing in details (for rpm, Suse and Fedora/Redhat macros are not the same), but if I can provide a spec that relies on the common denominator, it would build a package for any rpm based distrib without me even knowing that this distribution exists. So there is an advantage in having a reliable way to get this information, otherwise I will do something heuristicL that works sometimes.... and I like when I write the code once and then can forget it forever because it just works ;-) OK I know this will never be the case, but if I can convince distribs/people to provide such a facility, the gnu/linux world will be infinitesimally better I think... And it seems that the cost of adding some script (with a common name) or adding an option (eg in lsb_release) is not very high. The more difficult step is to convince everyone and to get some consensus... Bit again, this seems so trixial, so that I cannot see people arguing the pros and cons forever. They will find it's a good or a bad idea. The time spent to discuss this is probably already much higher than the time needed to implement sthg simple. Theo. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFDYMMACgkQEr8WrU8nPV0lnwCgo6zUjKXjg7j5AhMWYm9SoAzT 8IIAnRt+LufnAWZgJKDkHtNnk2kibzwc =VmG3 -----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
