Re: distro name

[Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio online no>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 00:53, Jim C. wrote:
> > rpm -q --queryformat "%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" glibc
> 
> Actually this is not what I had in mind.  I dno't want to query the rpm 
> database.  I want to query the system during an rpm install, i.e. in the 
> spec file: "If this is the correct version of Linux, install otherwise 
> fail."

The closest thing I know of is "rpm -qa \*-release", but I don't know if
that works for anything not redhat-related.

  $ rpm -qa \*-release
  fedora-release-2-4
  $ cat /etc/fedora-release
  Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
  $ ls -l /etc/redhat-release
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 14 May 29 18:49 /etc/redhat-release -> fedora-release
  $ cat /etc/issue
  Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
  Kernel \r on an \m

Perhaps /etc/issue is more generic? getty outputs this file with
uname -x replacing \x.

Regards,
Enrique