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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery] smgl-release in /etc
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:34:41 +0000

Should Sorcery install the file '/etc/smgl-release' with the version of
Sorcery
installed? I'm not sure if this is LSB or FHS, but I've noticed that both RH
and Gentoo have it. I'm not sure what goes in there, but I've heard the
following suggestions:

/etc/smgl-release:
Source Mage GNU/Linux
ISO version
Sorcery version

That /should/ contain all the pertinent information. That way it's easy to
check which ISO they installed from (then we could deal with ISO-specific bugs
in spells, if needed).

The name at the top is just for fun/verbosity, and the Sorcery version is so
that, if needed, other things can get the version without using Sorcery.

I believe the ISO should install this file, and Sorcery should modify only the
last line (if the file doesn't exist, Sorcery should create the file with
everything except the ISO version).

Thoughts?

-sandalle

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