On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200
Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote:
/etc/arch-release
Anyone know what is meant to be in this file
The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so users can identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, and i was asked if this file exists, which is does, but it is empty?
?any other unique arch identifiers.
As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. But as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we decided to keep the file, but make it empty.
maybe we should delete it. Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which seems pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do you mean 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? Assuming the latter, a better "system identification" would be something like `pacman -Q`
Dieter
Thanks for the replies, me I didn't mean anything, they just asked me what was in the file. pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that - is it possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on another machine, just reverse the process? Would save me heaps of time putting a system back together as happened last week when i had to replace my HDD, taken me ages to 'remember' everything I had on it. Richard