[TriLUG] Determining distro via script

[William Sutton]

aye....with gentoo you need to follow it up with a uname -a.

mine has some meaningless base distro tag.

-- 
William Sutton


On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Owen Berry wrote:

> Me too, but I'm wondering if it's even relevant for Gentoo. Maybe it
> should be a timestamp or something rather. :-)
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:15:09PM -0500, William Sutton wrote:
> > I note that I also have it on gentoo.
> > 
> > -- 
> > William Sutton
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Warren Myers wrote:
> > 
> > > Far as I know it is - I've seen it on my (K)Ubuntu boxes, SuSE, RHEL,
> > CentOS, etc
> > 
> > On 11/3/06, Shawn Hood <shawnlhood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was not aware that *-release was a conventional thing.  Sweet.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > On 11/3/06, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I think there is a /etc/<distro>-release file in every distro. on SuSE
> > > it's
> > > > /etc/SuSE-release
> > > > CPU info can be gained from /proc/cpuinfo
> > > >
> > > > WMM
> > > >
> > > > On 11/3/06, Shawn Hood <shawnlhood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > List,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am writing a shell script that performs different tasks based on the
> > > > > distribution, distro version, and architecture of the machine.  I was
> > > > > wondering if anybody had any surefire ways to perform this function.
> > > > > I know you could do this by parsing the default /etc/issue, a
> > > > > combination of uname parameters, etc.  Red Hat has
> > > > > /etc/redhat-release, etc.  There are a number of things that you could
> > > > > derive distribution information from.  I'm just looking for the most
> > > > > common, easiest-to-use indicators.  SLES9/10 and RHEL3/4 are most
> > > > > important.
> > > > >
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