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Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri May 21 19:04:21 UTC 2010


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:22:28AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > What happens if we want to run the /usr/bin/lsb_release command?
> 
> Check /etc/redhat-release (which is a symlink to fedora-release, centos-
> release etc. on the relevant systems) instead?

Well, funnily enough I did something like that ...

Unfortunately I couldn't find a really good way to differentiate
between Debian from Ubuntu without using 'lsb_release -i'.

Rich.

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