tdf#140286 - CALC formula =INFO("OSVERSION") gives wrong output

[Wols Lists]

On 18/01/2022 00:20, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
> 
> On Monday, January 17, 2022 17:17 EST, Wol <antlists at youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 14/01/2022 22:24, Wols Lists wrote:
>> > On 14/01/2022 21:26, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>> >> I will work on a patch for Linux that parses /etc/os-release with a
>> >> fallback to just the kernel version if that is not available
>> >> (virtually all desktop systems use systemd now).
>> >
>> > Are you sure?
>> >
>> > Okay, it's mostly the mad hold-outs, but Devuan, funtoo, gentoo, that's
>> > three distros off the top of my head that don't default to systemd. And
>> > they're the ones (gentoo especially) that devs might well be running.
>> >
>> > I think a sane set of options from uname is much better. That's pretty
>> > much guaranteed to be universal, I believe, and you could even make the
>> > options a user-specified matter should they be mad enough to want to.
>> >
>> Just looked at /etc/os-release (as you may have guessed my gentoo system
>> does run systemd), and the ONLY useful information you'll get from it is
>> "Gentoo Linux".
>> So for those people who want more than just the distro name, os-release
>> is not enough.
>>
>> anthony at thewolery ~/gitstuff/ScarletDME $ cat /etc/os-release
>> NAME=Gentoo
>> ID=gentoo
>> PRETTY_NAME="Gentoo/Linux"
>> ANSI_COLOR="1;32"
>> HOME_URL="https://www.gentoo.org/"
>> SUPPORT_URL="https://www.gentoo.org/support/"
>> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.gentoo.org/"
>> anthony at thewolery ~/gitstuff/ScarletDME $
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
> I like the "PRETTY_NAME" and VERSION_ID as provided by /etc/os-release, 
> and this is usually enough for most people. I commonly ask people which 
> version of their OS they are running, but I rarely ask for more details 
> than that; although I will admit that a certain Windows 10 release was 
> not supporting something I was doing.
> 
> What do you show from /proc/version? Lots of useful information ther, 
> but, I need to work harder to recognize that my primary computer is 
> running FEDORA.
> 
> [andy at DESKTOP-6U3CUIF ~]$ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 5.15.13-200.fc35.x86_64 
> (mockbuild at bkernel01.iad2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20211203 
> (Red Hat 11.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.37-10.fc35) #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 
> 16:39:13 UTC 2022
> 
anthony at thewolery ~/gitstuff/ScarletDME/Sphinx/docs $ cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.10.76-gentoo-r1 (root at thewolery) (gcc (Gentoo 11.2.0 p1) 
11.2.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p0) 2.37) #1 SMP Sun Nov 14 17:30:04 GMT 2021
anthony at thewolery ~/gitstuff/ScarletDME/Sphinx/docs $

Cheers.
Wol