Thanks; I'll look around some more in the LSB documents to see if maybe it moved, although it seems like it would be in the core. I'm curious about how often people mix distributions on one system. It seems like it should be easier to drop application packages onto a mix of systems, more-so as lsb and abi compliance improves. I suppose in that world, the /etc/lsb-release file would refer to some core set of packages, like the kernel and libc... Thoughts? -Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barbosa > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:25 PM > To: RPM Package Manager > Subject: Re: distro name > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As far as I know, an existing, abeit old one (LSB 1.1.0). > > I'm not an LSB expert, tho. I'm just mentioning this based on > my own systems, where I run Conectiva Linux. > > This file is instaled by the package lsb-release, and was > included during the LSB compliance process Conective went through. > > Here is the output of this file: > > LSB_VERSION="1.1.0" > DISTRIB_ID=Conectiva > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Conectiva Linux" > DISTRIB_RELEASE="9" > > On the help file that comes with this package: > > If the installation is LSB compliant, the > "/etc/lsb-release" file > should contain the LSB_VERSION field. The value of the > field should be > the version number of the LSB specification against > which the installa- > tion is compliant. If the installation is not > compliant, the above > field should not be present. > > Optional fields are DISTRIB_ID, DISTRIB_RELEASE, > DISTRIB_CODENAME, DIS- > TRIB_DESCRIPTION and can be used to overwrite > information which is > parsed from the next file. > > There is also a command lsb_release. > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:16:00PM -0700, Aaron Hanson wrote: > > Hi- > > > > A search of the lsb core document, v1.3 and the v2.0 > candidate, do > > not mention such a file. Rodrigo, were you referring to an existing > > standard, or just proposing one? > > > > Thanks... > > > > -Aaron > > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
