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Bug 275029 - Why "/etc/gentoo-release" always not updated? Could you make its content more meaningful?
Summary: Why "/etc/gentoo-release" always not updated? Could you make its content more...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2009-06-22 07:31 UTC by r01
Modified: 2009-06-22 08:32 UTC (History)
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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.