[arch-general] arch-release

[Jan de Groot]

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.

2009.08 won't be 2009.08 as soon as you run pacman -Syu ;)