On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 00:53, Jim C. wrote:
> > > rpm -q --queryformat "%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" glibc
> >
> > Actually this is not what I had in mind. I dno't want to query the rpm
> > database. I want to query the system during an rpm install, i.e. in the
> > spec file: "If this is the correct version of Linux, install otherwise
> > fail."
>
> The closest thing I know of is "rpm -qa \*-release", but I don't know if
> that works for anything not redhat-related.
>
> $ rpm -qa \*-release
> fedora-release-2-4
..except he didn't want to query rpmdb.
> $ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> $ ls -l /etc/redhat-release
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 29 18:49 /etc/redhat-release -> fedora-release
IIRC pretty much all linux distros have /etc/<distroname>-release in
place, at least Debian, RH-variants (RHL, RHEL+rebuilds, FC), SuSE and
Mandrake have it, making it probably the best option.
> $ cat /etc/issue
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> Kernel \r on an \m
>
> Perhaps /etc/issue is more generic? getty outputs this file with
> uname -x replacing \x.
Looking at /etc/issue is a BAD idea because that's a system configuration
file. People put legalese ("unauthorized use prohibited") and such in
there, can't be depended on.
- Panu -
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