uname output ?

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, pll at lanminds.com hath spake thusly:
> For example, if I have a RH 6.2 system, I might well upgrade the 
> sh-utils package to that which shipped with 7.3.  Does uname now 
> report that I'm using 7.3 or 6.2?  How does it determine this?
> If it relies upon the lsb_release package, how does this determine 
> which release I'm on?  Does it rely upon /etc/redhat_release?  What 
> if this is not correct.  This is not an easy problem to solve :(

I disagree.  The solution is to provide a package specific to each
distribution.  Of course, your system admin has to pay attention...
It would need to be named differently on each release so that it could
not be inadvertently upgraded...

Most distributions already do provide such a package.  Of course, the
sysadmin can always remove it...  =8^)

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