please declare that stable was relesed in some /etc file at the release day
by zerouno from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5T78X)
Yes, the subject is uncomprensible.
reading /etc/os-release and /etc/slackware-version seems as slackware 15 stable was released and running, but at all effect this is an rc release and the official slackware-15.0 repository does not exists.
This may confuse some software, as slackpkg or other custom script, that can't know which slackware release is really installed.
So maybe useful another file or a tag in /etc/os-release reporting that we are in -current and in the release-day (the only day where slackware-current is the same of slackware-15.0) a new aaa_base change it in 15.0. The same tag at the first new package after release may report that we are in a new slackware-current tree (expliciting that we are in a NEW current branch).
So various script can use it to detect which slackware release you are using.
Currently slackpkg always - at first run - will show
"You have selected a mirror for Slackware -current in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors,
but Slackware version 15.0 appears to be installed."
reading /etc/os-release and /etc/slackware-version seems as slackware 15 stable was released and running, but at all effect this is an rc release and the official slackware-15.0 repository does not exists.
This may confuse some software, as slackpkg or other custom script, that can't know which slackware release is really installed.
So maybe useful another file or a tag in /etc/os-release reporting that we are in -current and in the release-day (the only day where slackware-current is the same of slackware-15.0) a new aaa_base change it in 15.0. The same tag at the first new package after release may report that we are in a new slackware-current tree (expliciting that we are in a NEW current branch).
So various script can use it to detect which slackware release you are using.
Currently slackpkg always - at first run - will show
"You have selected a mirror for Slackware -current in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors,
but Slackware version 15.0 appears to be installed."