Retain upgrade paths (was: /etc/redhat-release?)

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:57, Peter Bowen wrote:

> First, I would encourage you, and anyone else doing something like this
> to strongly consider doing 'rpm -qf --qf "%{VERSION}"
> /etc/redhat-release', as checking for the redhat-release package will
> fail on RHEL.

I wish we could settle on a standard /etc/release that would encode
these things in a shell-friendly manner, like /etc/lsb-release does.

Wil
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