[arch-general] arch-release

[Alexander Duscheleit]

Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:25:07 +0300
schrieb Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:

> 2009/8/26 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
> >
> > What about putting date when pacman -Syu was run for a last time in
> > that file? It would still suffer from lag when using mirrors but I
> > guess it should be accurate enough.
> 
> I don't think anyone is going to really put something in that file,
> so don't hold your breath.
> The point it that there's no real usefulness of any information
> in that file. Only the existence of the file is needed,
> so apps (e.g. VirtualBox) can check for it to know they are
> running in Arch.
> 

It's also nice to have for your .$SHELLrc to activate
distribution-specific aliases (think package manager for example).

/etc/gentoo-release is part of sys-apps/baselayout and contains it's
version number:

# cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1

So perhaps the version of core/filesystem might be a good fit. (It's
not in any way accurate but mirrors the practice of another popular
rolling-release distro ;))
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