Re: [tlug] cat /etc/*release and Upgrading old distros (was Upgrading to PHP5 on Fedora)

[Keith Bawden <isdj@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:10:51 +0900 Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote
>>     
>>> The definitive way of determining which distro you are running is:
>>>
>>> cat /etc/*-release
>>>       
You sometimes need to edit the contents of /etc/*-release to facilitate
installing some applications.For example, I remember having to change
this in FC3 to install Oracle 10g

Therefore if someone has done this and not reversed the changes the
results may not be quite "definitive" :-) Having said that not restoring
any changes to /etc/*-release after playing with them would probably
give rise to some funkiness next time an app uses during installation...

Regards, Keith