Improving the Identication of Linux Distributions when Dumping

[Matthias Klose]

On 04/20/2011 01:34 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> What is the purpose of this identification?
>
> When you install/upgrade distribution using a way official for this distribution
> you will end up running the kernel with proper version string. (e.g.
> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) )
>
> if we like to have not only ubuntu but ubuntu 10.3 you have to read
> /etc/*-releases but this file doesn't reflect partial upgrades of running system
> (e.g kernel or libc upgrade) so value of this number is doubtful for me.

At least Ubuntu doesn't support partial upgrades.  The version number in 
/etc/lsb-release is finally set for the release candidate of a release. Unless 
you see "development" in this file, you should trust the version number.

Now, running another distribution in a chroot would report the wrong kernel 
version.  I don't mind if you report this information too, but omitting the 
distro information seems a bit odd.

   Matthias