On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) <Matthew.Stainforth@xxxxxx> wrote: >> The "pain point" I mentioned was the inconsistent treatment of >> /etc/redhat-release which causes maintenance work for those of us who >> do need to parse it in scripts over time. We can expect distinct cases >> for each major release of RHEL but there have also been occasions >> where this file has changed in unpredictable ways across minor update >> levels as well. > > Have you thought about parsing the output of "rpm -q redhat-release"? I have need of the same functionality > and was going to use this approach. I just began with RHEL3 ... and over time it grew into a bit of a mess. If I were starting over I might consider this but I don't think the rpm release versions map all that cleanly onto major.minor release numbers either. If you find a slick way to do that though do share it. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
