On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > then you can do whatever you think is pertinent in in your > ~/.signature-debian script. for example: > > #!/bin/bash > echo -n "Note that I use Debian version " > cat /etc/debian_version
Because /etc/debian_version (on the machine I'm sitting at) contains --- 2.2 --- instead of --- a system with roughly 2/3s stable and 1/3 testing packages installed whose current package listing contains packages from: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://bradley/debian westling main (The bradley archive is maintained internally and contains mostly stable packages with some testing packages and a few packages which are not distributed by Debian at all.) --- /etc/debian_version is incorrect and, on days when I have sources.list pointing at testing instead of stable, it is even less correct, as apt-cache will look through the woody package list instead of the potato list. And the actual statement of this machine's status is decidedly not McQ, either. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
