On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200 Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > > /etc/arch-release > > > > Anyone know what is meant to be in this file > > > > The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so > > users can identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, > > and i was asked if this file exists, which is does, but it is empty? > > > > ?any other unique arch identifiers. > > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. > But as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we decided to > keep the file, but make it empty. maybe we should delete it. Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which seems pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do you mean 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? Assuming the latter, a better "system identification" would be something like `pacman -Q` Dieter
