[maemo-developers] Detecting Maemo release version, at runtime and using scripts

[From: Scott Prive]

Thanks Marius!

On 4/7/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:46:36PM -0400, Scott Prive wrote:
> > I have a shell-based application which I want to support on Maemo. A
> small
> > feature of my application is to detect the OS/platform it is running on.
> >
> > To get this information on other Linux, I invoke `lsb_release` (Sadly,
> this
> > command does not exist in the Internet Tablet OS 2007..). Fallback
> detection
> > is normally accomplished using `cat /etc/*release` in older Linux/UNIX.
> >
> > For the moment, I have a very frail workaround:
> > grep Nokia /etc/hostname
> > followed by a test on "$?"
> >
> > Is there a Maemo-specific solution to detecting the platform during
> script
> > execution?
>
> $ cat /etc/osso_software_version
> RX-34_2007SE_3.2007.10-7_PR_MR0
>
> Marius Gedminas
> --
> We did it for smallpox, we'll also win over on ISO 8859-1 ... ;-)
>         -- Markus Kuhn after eradicating one more ISO 8859-1 file from his
> disk
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-- 
-Scott
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