X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 10:32:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim McDaniel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1 In-Reply-To: <20100405142008.GA10449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20100404212837.GA13198@onderneming10.xs4all.nl> <4BB9944D.5000005@gmail.com> <20100405142008.GA10449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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. As I understand it, it's a file that's maintained by the Redhat installation software to show, in an easy human-readable way, what is currently installed on the running system. It is only updated by new installs run on the machine. I think that some other distributions put something in /etc/motd. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple