[patch icedtea/openjdk] print more accurate information about the distribution

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Wed Mar 12 01:04:02 PDT 2008


Hi Matthias,

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:27 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Ubuntu doesn't use (and therefore doesn't change) /etc/debian_version, but uses
> lsb_release for more accurate information about the running distribution.  Allow
> to read /etc/lsb-release (which has a list of key/value pairs before trying to
> read /etc/debian_version.
> 
> However the file /etc/lsb-release is not standardized, forwarded this to
> lsb-discuss at lists.linux-foundation.org.
> 
> ok to checkin?

Is this any different from the last post?
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-March/001317.html
Could you look at the comments made to that one?
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-March/001328.html

Thanks,

Mark




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