[fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro

[David W Noon]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:54:35 +0200, ik wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal]
Detecting what is the linux distro:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30, Henry Vermaak
> <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>wrote:
[snip]
> > Just curious, why would you like to detect this?
> >
> 
> You want to know how to install files for daemons, append information
> in other existed packages etc... But instead of creating 1000%
> packages types for each distro, you can for example know  that Gentoo
> and ArchLinux uses /etc/rc.d/ for init deamons.
> You know that Debian, CentOS, RedHat and few others uses /etc/init.d/
> etc...

Both of those directories are used by virtually all UNIX
implementations. /etc/init.d/ contains the init scripts for system
daemons, whereas /etc/rc.d/ contains the configuration files that are
interpolated into the init scripts to establish environment variables
for the daemons.  These directories do not have an either/or
relationship.

This is a consequence of using an init process based on the System V
model.

Why don't you just use a package manager, such as apt/dpkg, Portage,
RPM, etc., instead?  Most distros can handle more than one of these.
For example, I run Gentoo, and it will handle .deb and .rpm packages,
as well as its native Portage ebuilds.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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