Nigel Henry wrote:
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> Hi Graham. I'm on FC2 at the moment, and rpm -q fedora-release gives me
> the same (fedora-release-2-4), which doesn't make a lot of sense
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It makes perfect sense if you remember that it is the version-release of
an RPM package. Take for example:
httpd-2.0.46-57.ent
Package: httpd
Version: 2.0.46
Release: 57.ent
To get just a simple number, you could do something like:
rpm -q --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n' fedora-release
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William Hooper
