Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Makefile_upgrade.inc src/etc Makefile

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :A minor thing - Redhat uses /etc/redhat-release and Debian uses
> :/etc/debian_version - can we do something like /etc/dragonfly-version ? 
> :If we're going to add a file, it may as well match a minor trend.
>     
>     I'm all for something like that, though because the names are not
>     encoded to any particular standard ours should be in /etc/upgrade/
>     somewhere.
>
>     Someone mentioned /etc/uname... not sure if that's encoded to any
>     general standard either but it's worth researching.  The 'uname'
>     program is the only thing that's actually standardized across platforms.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>

'/uname' may also be less likely to be affected by the unexpected - e.g. 
someone *elses* idea - even an inconsiderate application - attempting to 
utilize ~/upgrade

Nice byproduct if so formatted that the 'uname' utility - or an enhanced 
one - JFW w/r showing the relevant info when asked by humans as well as 
the build tools...

Bill