From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at gmail.com>
To: powertop@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] report: Try /etc/lsb-release for OS information
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:07:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348153647.1510.9.camel@leonhard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 505B2FDF.3000804@linux.intel.com
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2012-09-20 (목), 17:01 +0200, Arjan van de Ven:
> On 9/20/2012 4:58 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Ubuntu doesn't provide /etc/{system,redhat,os}-release but
> > /etc/lsb-release file. Since it's present on any LSB (Linux Standard
> > Base) compliant distributions, it'd better to try to read it.
>
> it's obsolete though
> everyone has moved (or is moving) to /etc/os-release, which is a freedesktop standard
> and has pretty decent semantics...
Didn't know that. But at least my desktop box doesn't have the
os-release yet. Do you mind if we try the lsb-release file as a
fallback (as does in this patch)?
Thanks,
Namhyung
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2012-09-20 15:07 Namhyung Kim [this message]
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2012-09-20 15:01 [Powertop] [PATCH] report: Try /etc/lsb-release for OS information Arjan van de Ven
2012-09-20 14:58 Namhyung Kim
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