/etc/redhat-release

[Marti, Robert]

4.8 is redhat-release-4ES-9
5.5 is redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2

So 5 might be relatively clean, but 4 won't be, at least for the minor.

Rob Marti

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of inode0
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 2:54 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: /etc/redhat-release

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) <Matthew.Stainforth at gnb.ca> wrote:
>> The "pain point" I mentioned was the inconsistent treatment of 
>> /etc/redhat-release which causes maintenance work for those of us who 
>> do need to parse it in scripts over time. We can expect distinct 
>> cases for each major release of RHEL but there have also been 
>> occasions where this file has changed in unpredictable ways across 
>> minor update levels as well.
>
> Have you thought about parsing the output of "rpm -q redhat-release"?  
> I have need of the same functionality and was going to use this approach.

I just began with RHEL3 ... and over time it grew into a bit of a mess. If I were starting over I might consider this but I don't think the rpm release versions map all that cleanly onto major.minor release numbers either.

If you find a slick way to do that though do share it.

John

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