topic Re: linux distro version in Operating System - Linux

linux distro version

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:25:44 GMT

and Mandrake has two files:

/etc/redhat-release (guess, why? :-)

and

/etc/mandrake-release

Re: linux distro version

Rick Beldin — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:45:45 GMT

I think it might be that Mandrake leverages off the RedHat release. The mandrake-release is probably MD-specific stuff.

Just a guess but this seems to be somewhat common among distros that hang off each other.

Re: linux distro version

Stuart Browne — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:56:21 GMT

Acutaly I think this has to do more with how some RPM's grab the distribution version details.

I know that some I've installed here look at /etc/redhat-release to see if it's a new enough version, instead of relying upon standard dependancies.

It's just a quick-hack by Mandrake to get around some people's bad %pre and %post routines in RPM's.