X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1 References: <20100404212837.GA13198@onderneming10.xs4all.nl> <4BB9944D.5000005@gmail.com> <20100405142008.GA10449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:57:24 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Matthias Andree" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.51 (Win32) 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 Tim McDaniel wrote on 2010-04-05: > 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. There's the LSB, Linux Standards Base, and it supports a "lsb_release" command, try "lsb_release -a" for a start, here a few samplers: LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Release: 8.04 Codename: hardy LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic LSB Version: core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX Description: openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Release: 11.2 Codename: n/a -- Matthias Andree -- 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