Bug 275029

Summary:	Why "/etc/gentoo-release" always not updated? Could you make its content more meaningful?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	r01 <crquan>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description r01 2009-06-22 07:31:46 UTC

I happend to find out a gentoo installation about one year ago, in a broken disk, the "/etc/gentoo-release" said it was 1.12.11.1,

And now my another newly updated gentoo installation is also 1.21.11.1,

# cat /etc/gentoo-release 
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1

I don't really know what does the number means, but could you make something in "/etc/*-release" more miningfull? Like under other distros /etc/redhat-release or /etc/ubuntu-release, that file only contains a major release number, or to denote its releasing year, (and/or year/month) or something meaningful.

Thanks,

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-22 08:03:38 UTC

It's the version of the sys-apps/baselayout package being installed on your system. So this file already has a meaningful content.

Comment 2 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-06-22 08:32:37 UTC

And it's not possible to make it more meaningful since gentoo has no releases in the sense other distributions have.