From unknown Sun Jun 22 11:34:47 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#9339 <9339@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#9339 <9339@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: Feature suggestion --distribution Reply-To: bug#9339 <9339@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:34:47 +0000 retitle 9339 Feature suggestion --distribution reassign 9339 coreutils submitter 9339 rcb severity 9339 wishlist tag 9339 notabug wontfix thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Aug 21 15:29:44 2011 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Aug 2011 19:29:44 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvDiJ-0003m8-E8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:29:44 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBQE-0002pl-2M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:02:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBO0-0007ni-9S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:00:36 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]:58077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBO0-0007ne-7m for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:00:36 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBNz-0006g2-Ba for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:00:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBNy-0007nK-HI for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:00:35 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:64823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvBNy-0007nF-9u for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:00:34 -0400 Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so3542474fxg.0 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.5.19 with SMTP id 19mr2319426fat.26.1313946032439; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.103.131 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [187.58.105.174] Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:00:32 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Feature suggestion --distribution From: rcb To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001517478d2c8480df04ab06e6e8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.17 X-Spam-Score: -6.6 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:29:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -6.6 (------) --001517478d2c8480df04ab06e6e8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Please, add an option to show distro info. Example: #uname -d ubuntu v.10.04 #uname --distribution slackware v. 13.37 Thanks for taking your time to read this. If you need me to ask this suggestion in other channel, please let me know. Dr. Beco -- Linux user since linux was unusable. --001517478d2c8480df04ab06e6e8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Please, add an option to show distro info. Example:

#uname -d
ubuntu v.10.04
#uname --dist= ribution
slackware v. 13.37

Thanks for taking = your time to read this. If you need me to ask this suggestion in other chan= nel, please let me know.

Dr. Beco

--
Linux us= er since linux was unusable.

--001517478d2c8480df04ab06e6e8-- From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Aug 21 21:51:31 2011 Received: (at 9339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Aug 2011 01:51:31 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvJfm-0004XA-Px for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:51:31 -0400 Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvJfi-0004Wy-KF; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:51:29 -0400 Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF8221312; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:49:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5807C2DC83; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:49:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:49:06 -0600 From: Bob Proulx To: rcb Subject: Re: bug#9339: Feature suggestion --distribution Message-ID: <20110822014906.GA7161@hysteria.proulx.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 9339 Cc: 9339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) severity 9339 wishlist tags 9339 + notabug wontfix thanks rcb wrote: > Please, add an option to show distro info. Example: > > #uname -d > ubuntu v.10.04 > #uname --distribution > slackware v. 13.37 > > Thanks for taking your time to read this. If you need me to ask this > suggestion in other channel, please let me know. The 'uname' command is one of those very old legacy commands from the old, old Unix era before the current networking and before almost any attempt at making systems inter-operable. As such it is a terrible command. It is inconsistently implemented on different systems. It has limitations and issues that don't really apply to the current state of things anymore. The only portable use is to call it without option arguments and then depending upon what it returns possibly call it again with system specific options. As such I really don't think it is good to expand its use by adding more to it. But the real reason I would be opposed to this is that the LSB commands already implement this behavior. 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