[arch-general] arch-release

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200
Jan de Groot <jan at 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