On 03/27/2012 10:32 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:42:17PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote: >> Fedora is using /etc/redhat-release file so you use the same handling >> for Fedora and RHEL then it's fine. > > I also have a /etc/fedora-release on my f17. systemd people are pushing for > standardization around > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html > > Christophe Oh, didn't know about this, but when I'm looking at it, it reminds me of http://xkcd.com/927/ =) There is already /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/<type>-release etc. I'm aware of these not having very standardized format, but I don't see any standardized field in /etc/os-release that would tell me on what type of distribution this particular one was built. Maybe I'm the only one who wants to get this information using /etc/*-release, but I want to get it without keeping list of rpm-based distributions in the code and matching in them with the distribution name. In this particular case (I needed to know wherther I can use 'rpm' or not) it seems like the best to check for /etc/redhat-release. It is there even when you have /etc/<distribution>-release in there. Anyway, thanks for the info. Martin -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list