RE: distro name

[David T Farning <dfarning sbcglobal net>]

Avoiding the issue of, if looking up the distro name is a good/bad
idea...  

It is pretty non-trivial to determine stuff such as
processor/distro/version because every distro/proc seems to report it
slightly differently.  Check out the source for yum or up2date for how
to do it in python.

Look at the definitive bash script in autoconfig/config/config.guess for
a deeper example.

David T. Farning -dtf

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:12 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Erik Slagter wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:00, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > 
> > > How are you going to build cross-vendor packages when every vendor is 
> > > having their own specific naming convention and libraries ? What 3rd 
> > > parties are doing is removing all the dependencies from thei packages so 
> > > that they will install. Making dependencies completely futile and having 
> > > no guarantee they will work.
> > 
> > Although using sonames as dependencies does help.
> 
> Guess what, libraries differ on different distributions. And even when 
> they are named the same, they may not be ABI compatible.
> 
> 
> > BTW I regularly install rpms from PLD and Mandrake on my FC system, no
> > problem. Sometimes I need to persuade them a little bit yeah.
> 
> Good luck to you.
> 
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