[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb

[Berthold Höllmann]

David Arnold <arnold@dstc.monash.edu.au> writes:

> -->"Andrew" == Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> writes:
> 
>   Andrew> (But how can you tell whether a Linux distribution uses RPM
>   Andrew> or DEB natively?)
> 
> checking for the presence of /etc/redhat_release or
> /etc/debian.version (or whatever their actual spelling is) would give
> you a good guess.

For SuSE this would be /etc/SuSE-release (at least for 8.1). Maybe
/etc/issue would provide a nice guess, if it is not changed.
 
> alternatively, checking for the presence of the debian installer tools
> (dpkg, etc) would tend to indicate a debian system, and if that fails,
> checking for the rpm binary should do (debian systems can have the rpm
> binary installed also, but checking for dpkg first should be ok).

I'm on a rpm based SuSE 8.1 system:

>where dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg
>where rpm
/bin/rpm

so this does not work either.

Greetings

Berthold
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