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Re: Show version of operation system, kernel and distribution
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Show version of operation system, kernel and distribution |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jan 2016 21:49:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden skribis:
> In other GNU/Linux systems you have:
> cat /proc/version
> uname -a
> lsb_release -a
>
> I would like to document the equivalents for GuixSD, are these:
> cat /proc/version
> uname -a
> guix --version
>
> ?
I would argue that this is outside the scope of Guix{,SD} itself: /proc
is a Linux (the kernel) thing, ‘uname’ is documented as part of
GNU Coreutils, and ‘guix --version’ is documented elsewhere.
> Even though i recently pulled guix from git it still shows:
> ~/src/guix$ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.9.0
>
> should we change this for it to say "master" or "git pulled at hash
> xxxxxx" instead?
Definitely. The current behavior is a bug: <http://bugs.gnu.org/19318>.
Ludo’.