Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/04/05/13:31:52
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
>>>> * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there
>>>> something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention
>>>> /var/log/setup ... but is not clear at all)
>>>
>>> ... Otherwise, as Dave Korn suggests, you can *read the website*.
>>
>> I suppose that "/etc/redhat-release" is not as well-known a concept as
>> he or I had thought.
>
> You're assuming too much.
Given that several people replied with information about the version
available on the Web (though often also mentioning information on
local versions), I think not.
> The Cygwin distribution doesn't come from Red Hat so calling
> something /etc/redhat-release wouldn't make much sense.
Which is why the original question had "e.g.", "something like", and
"whatever", and I wrote "concept".
Thank you for the information on multiple version numbers with Cygwin,
and how a single identifier would not make much sense.
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com
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