John, inode0 wrote: > 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. Yeah, but that package, AFAIK, isn't supposed to *make* it compliant, just check if everything's there. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list