Bug 504498

Summary:	provide /etc/lsb-release
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew Ziem <ahz001>
Component:	redhat-lsb	Assignee:	Lawrence Lim <llim>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	hliu, llim, nsoranzo, tools-bugs
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Description Andrew Ziem 2009-06-07 15:08:38 UTC

Description of problem:
Other Linux distributions provide the file /etc/lsb-release  which is useful for developers to determine platform information. However, Fedora doesn't ship this file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-lsb-3.2-2.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /etc/lsb-release

  
Actual results:
cat: /etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory


Expected results:
DISTRIB_ID=Fedora
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=cambridge
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Fedora 10"

Additional info:
Ubuntu, Mandriva, and others have this file.

Comment 1 Nicola Soranzo 2009-09-16 15:13:34 UTC

I think you should use the lsb_release command, see its man page for more information.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 12:04:40 UTC

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Comment 3 Andrew Ziem 2009-11-18 17:50:29 UTC

Still not there in Fedora 11

Comment 4 Andrew Ziem 2009-11-18 17:52:07 UTC

lsb_release is a little harder to parse, but it is OK for me.  I can't speak for others that may benefit from /etc/lsb-release, so you can close if you want