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Re: Debian testing - release number

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian testing - release number
Date	2018-07-06 02:10 +0200
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On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 16:29:30 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:46 PM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:27:44PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > (1) You foolishly relied on the value in /etc/debian_version when
> >
> > It is not a fucking configuration file that you edit.
> > It is supposed to be read only.
> > Only a crazy idiot would manually edit the file that tells you what
> > version of the OS you're running.
> > It would be like editing registry entries in Microsoft Windows to make
> > it look like you're running a different version of Windows.
> 
> All perfectly correct, valid statements in my view Greg.
> But that wasn't my question.
> Question: What is the correct tool to TELL you what Debian version you
> are running?
> Mr. Armstrong suggests that dpkg is a better choice and that sounds better than
> the apt-related commands. But Joe A followed up with:
> "But it's odd that you're the first to point out (indirectly) that
> knowing the version of Debian isn't that useful."
> I did no such thing. I think it's very useful. But what I'm trying to
> point out here
> is that there seems to be no such canonical (sic) Debian tool which CAN tell me
> what release and version I'm running. Otherwise the answer from Joe Armstrong
> would have been more like "run command XYZ which tells you version=3.4.5".
> So there doesn't seem to be such a tool. That was my point.
> Now we know that the answer "look at /etc/debian_version" is the wrong answer.
> So again: What is the correct, intended, standard Debian tool which tells me
> the installed, running Debian release and version number?

Oh, that's easy. The intended one is /etc/os-release ± lsb_release
(command) if it's installed. Though a closer approach might be
/etc/apt/sources.list.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-28 06:50 +0200
  Re: Debian testing - release number Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-07-01 12:50 +0200
    Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-01 19:40 +0200
      Re: Debian testing - release number John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-04 03:00 +0200
        Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-04 17:20 +0200
          Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-05 14:20 +0200
      Re: Debian testing - release number Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-07-04 03:20 +0200
        Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-04 18:00 +0200
          Re: Debian testing - release number Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-07-05 03:00 +0200
            Re: Debian testing - release number John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-05 04:20 +0200
            Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-05 12:20 +0200
              Re: Debian testing - release number Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-05 13:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-05 13:50 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-05 18:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-05 18:50 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-05 20:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-05 20:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-07-05 22:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-05 22:20 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-07-05 22:30 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-05 22:50 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-07-05 23:40 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-06 02:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-06 19:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-06 20:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-05 22:40 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-06 02:20 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-06 10:50 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-06 14:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-06 15:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-07-07 06:10 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-07 10:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-09 17:30 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-10 23:30 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-11 14:00 +0200
                Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-13 21:20 +0200
            Re: Debian testing - release number David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-05 16:50 +0200

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