On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > 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 Thanks for the replies, me I didn't mean anything, they just asked me what was in the file. pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that - is it possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on another machine, just reverse the process? Would save me heaps of time putting a system back together as happened last week when i had to replace my HDD, taken me ages to 'remember' everything I had on it. Richard
