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check for Sarge or Sid
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| Hi,
I have to implement a test, which would say Sarge on a testing box and
Sid on an unstable one. How can I achieve this? /etc/debian_version
contins the same on both (no suprise here).
Thanks,
Laszlo/GCS
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| Otavio Salvador 2004-03-14, 9:34 pm |
| GCS <gcs@lsc.hu> writes:
> Hi,
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> I have to implement a test, which would say Sarge on a testing box and
> Sid on an unstable one. How can I achieve this? /etc/debian_version
> contins the same on both (no suprise here).
You can use apt-show-versions package. This show witch distro each
package is found.
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| Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder 2004-03-15, 4:34 am |
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| Steve McIntyre 2004-03-15, 5:34 am |
| In article <20040315011919.GA10238@lsc.hu> you write:
>Hi,
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> I have to implement a test, which would say Sarge on a testing box and
>Sid on an unstable one. How can I achieve this? /etc/debian_version
>contins the same on both (no suprise here).
Are you actually going to be able to do anything useful with this? A
sid box may become a sarge box over time without any admin
intervention as the packages installed move into testing. This makes
detecting the difference easier said than done...
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| Number Six 2004-03-15, 5:34 am |
| > In article <20040315011919.GA10238@lsc.hu> you write:[color=darkred]
I would think the presence of "unstable" or "sid" in sources.list is an
accurate indicator that the user at least intends to be running Sid.
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| Eike \zyro\ Sauer 2004-03-15, 6:34 am |
| Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder schrieb:
> I installed potato long time ago, upgraded to woody, installed some things
> from sarge later, and some things from sid. (For the most important parts
> are KDE which is from sid, and libc6/gcc/binutils/... which are from
> sarge. With all the dependencies, I suspect there's not much of woody left
> by now.)
I did the same and doing
apt-show-versions | grep /stable |wc -l
apt-show-versions | grep testing |wc -l
apt-show-versions | grep unstable |wc -l
shows 0/1399/233 packages. So yes, nothing of Woody is left.
This could be usefull for the OP as well:
Distribution distinction by majority...? :o)
Ciao,
Eike
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| Neil McGovern 2004-03-15, 6:34 am |
| On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:02:42AM -0800, Number Six wrote:
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> I would think the presence of "unstable" or "sid" in sources.list is an
> accurate indicator that the user at least intends to be running Sid.
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Unless they are pinning.
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| Nikita V. Youshchenko 2004-03-15, 10:36 am |
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> Hi,
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> I have to implement a test, which would say Sarge on a testing box and
> Sid on an unstable one. How can I achieve this? /etc/debian_version
> contins the same on both (no suprise here).
What for do you need it?
Many people are running some sort of testing/unstable (or even
stable/testing/unstable) mix.
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| Matt Zimmerman 2004-03-15, 12:35 pm |
| On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:19:19AM +0100, GCS wrote:
> I have to implement a test, which would say Sarge on a testing box and
> Sid on an unstable one.
Why?
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| Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder 2004-03-16, 5:35 am |
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