Reliable way to determine native packaging system

Theodore Papadopoulo Theodore.Papadopoulo at inria.fr
Thu Mar 14 15:07:21 UTC 2013


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

	I'm trying to find a standard way of finding the native packaging
system of a linux distribution. I'm not sure at all that testing the
presence of {rpm/yum}|{apt-get} is reliable as for example I can
install apt-get of my fedora computer.

So the question is, is there a simple test that can reliably determine
whether a linux machine is rpm or debian based for its native package
scheme ?

	Thank's in advance,

	Theo.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

iEYEARECAAYFAlFB56kACgkQEr8WrU8nPV1irACfdaEroo6zBFrlFqWbOVk+8/NC
TGAAoL2SLAZnh1Mldzl6z4IEYY1J+019
=LtLT
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


More information about the users mailing list