Test for redhatness (when building RPM's)

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Fri Aug 19 18:03:22 UTC 2005


Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm trying to tweak a package so that it autodetects when it's being
> built under Redhat/Fedora (et al) and does the right thing.
> 
> Is there a simple and foolproof test for this?

I suppose you could check for the file /etc/redhat-release

	$ cat /etc/redhat-release
	Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 

-M




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