building on Red Hat EL v 5

[Rick Cooper]

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 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Julian Field
 > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:09 PM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: building on Red Hat EL v 5
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 > Craig White wrote:
 > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:32 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
 > >> Craig White wrote on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:11 -0700:
 > >>
[...]

 > > I was trying to feed back to Jules that the forced install of
 > > perl-Test-Simple and perl-MIME-Base64 are not only unnecessary on
 > > RHEL v5 (and clone OS's)
 > But they are needed on things other than RHEL5.
 > What's the best way of detecting RHEL5 and all its clones?
 > 
 > > but really need to be removed after installation of MailScanner
 > > because they are forced and create a maintenance headache.
 > >
 > > Craig
 > >
 > 
 > Jules

You can get that information from /etc/redhat-release 

I don't know the format for vendors other than CentOS (whitebox etc) but I
am sure someone out there can provide it. Centos would be:

CentOS release MajorVersion.MinorRelease (final|other)

Redhat example:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 1)

Perhaps RHEL and clone users could post their /etc/redhat-release contents?

Rick


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