Improving the Identication of Linux Distributions when Dumping

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 19 08:25:11 PDT 2011


plus the format for the /etc/lsb-release file is not part of the lsb spec.  A 
proposal to either define an API to this information, or to document the format 
of this file didn't find much enthusiasm on the LSB ML.  So I would like to stay 
with the current approch, and read the file if available.

   Matthias



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