On 09.10.2013 09:53, Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:22:50AM +0200, butter@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Anyway, one last minor comment: > > > > Ubuntu 13.04 64bit does not yet support option -P for losetup. So > > this must be an older version of util-linux. But then: how do I > > determine the version of util-linux installed? The binaries have > > no --version option and 'strings /sbin/losetup | egrep '[0-9]' does > > not reveal anything useful either. Maybe there is a general version > > for util-linux available in another binary? The man page does not > > tell. I failed to identify the version number! > > The option --version for losetup is supported since v2.21. As Debian (even SID/unstable) only has an ancient version of util-linux i'm not surprised. $ dpkg -l | grep util-linux ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.5 i386 Miscellaneous system utilities $ losetup --version losetup: unrecognized option '--version' ... If Ubuntu doesn't roll it's own util-linux, there is the explantion. -- Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
