On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Pierre-Yves pingou@pingoured.fr wrote:
Looking at the bootable sector is there not a way to retrieve those info ?
If I knew the answer..I would have suggested it. The question was not rhetorical.
What defines a distribution? For fedora right now doesn't that pretty much comes down to checking the fedora-release package version in the installed rpmdb?
We aren't going to be doing that sort of thing for slackware-esque or debian-esque or foresight-esque or gentoo-esque distros. We may be able to detect opensuse or other rpm based systems that way...maybe...if the rpm databases are compatible with the rpm we have.
-jef