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(First post by relative newbie to Arch - I hope this is in the correct section)
I did a full update of my Arch Linux box yesterday and did not realise until some of my scripts failed that the output of lsb_release -a had changed.
Current output is:
LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: archlinux
Description: Arch Linux
Release: rolling
Codename: n/a
Prior to the upgrade the Distributor ID: line was:
Distributor ID: Arch
I use this line to work out what distribution my script is running on, which tells me where to look for certain files.
I can't easily use the Description line as that will be unstable for other distributions, for example Fedora:
Description: Fedora release 16 (Verne)
(Yes I could use regexes but what happens if someone invents Lo-Starch Linux?)
This raises a few questions for which responses to any or all would be most gratefully received...
1 Can I assume this change is definitive and I will not need to check and modify my scripts after the next (kernel?) update?
2 Is there any way of determining what the output of this command would be before performing the update (release notes perhaps?). One of my scripts runs every two minutes so I would like to be able to modify its decode before updating.
3 Is there another (better?) way of determining that I am running Arch?
Thanks in advance
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