On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:29:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > My test, doing a dist-upgrade on a Sarge system to move it to Etch, showed > that dist-upgrade does not change the contents of /etc/debian-version. > Also, the last modified date on /etc/debian-version is jul 26 2004, which > is the time when I originally installed Sarge on that machine. > > My concern is what can this be used for? It is clearly not useful as a way > of finding out what is actually installed on the machine. If it is truly > whatever one wants to put there, then it is hardly useful to scripts, > which was suggested earlier as its use. So what is it for? >
Following the recent discussion on this, I changed the entry in my /etc/debian_version to "Windows XP" to see what error messages I might get... -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
