On Tue 09 Aug 2016 at 13:27:34 (-0700), Seeker wrote: > On 8/9/2016 4:34 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >Le 09/08/2016 à 10:44, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit : > >>Andrew M.A. Cater: > >>>/etc/os-release just contains major version > >> > >>You are going to have to explain that to its manual page, which gives > >>VERSION_ID=11.04 as an example of what can be in the file. > > > >This is obviously not a Debian version. Rather looks like Ubuntu. > > > >>You're going to have to explain it to the Ubuntu people, as well; > >>because they follow what the manual says. > > > >Ubuntu 11.04 is a version based on year+month of release rather > >than a major+minor version. Ubuntu 11.04 is as different from > >11.10 as 11.10 is different from 12.04. > > > That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of > the LTS releases on packages.ubuntu.com and reading > the change log, looks like to do update the os-release with xx.xx.1, > xx.xx.2, etc...
Where was that, then? (To save us all having to search for it.) When you say "update the os-release with xx.xx.1", do you mean the VERSION_ID line? This line is optional anyway, is it not? Cheers, David.
