On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> >> 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. > <snip> > Y'know, when all you want is lsb_release, and I know I'd noticed it when I > installed it on some of our servers, but this finally penetrated, so I > just did rpm -qi -R redhat-lsb. Can *ANYONE* explain to me why it needs > libX11? I mean, it's a bloody command line shell script that prints to > STDOUT! Having the redhat-lsb package installed is *supposed* to mean your system is LSB compliant. That entails a lot more than that one shell script. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
