Subject: Can we have a /etc/debian in base?

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:34:29 +0200

This would be nice for at least two things:

  - the existence of the file could be tested in order to know that we
    are on a Debian system (config.guess for example could take advantage
    of this fact);

  - this file could contain useful info like the release of the installed
    Debian distribution, etc.

Yves.

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 13:37:44 -0400

>     are on a Debian system (config.guess for example could take advantage

'dftp' determines this by checking for the existance of /var/lib/dpkg, though
I suppose /usr/bin/dpkg would also be a good choice.

>     Debian distribution, etc.

I'm not sure off hand if this would be much use.  Since packages can so
easily be upgraded, a single version number probably wouldn't help much.
My system would still say "0.96" even though I don't think there is a
single "stable" package anywhere.

                                        Brian
                               ( [email-masked] )

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