/etc/redhat-release

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Marti, Robert wrote:
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
> inode0 wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> 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
<snip>
>>> Y'know, when all you want is lsb_release, and I know I'd noticed it
>>> when I installed it on some of our servers, but this finally
>>> penetrated, so I just did rpm -qi -R redhat-lsb. Can *ANYONE* explain
>>> to me why it needs libX11? I mean, it's a bloody command line shell
>>> script that prints to STDOUT!
>>
>> Having the redhat-lsb package installed is *supposed* to mean your
>> system is LSB compliant. That entails a lot more than that one shell
>> script.
>
> Yeah, but that package, AFAIK, isn't supposed to *make* it compliant, just
> check if everything's there.
<snip>
> Looks like it does both.

And if this were a function in a program, I'd say it did *far* too
much.... I dunno....

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