Bug 483655

Summary: Please provide lsb_release with lightweight dependency chain
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: dann frazier <dannf>
Component: OtherAssignee: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: asadeghpour, binner, radomir.cernoch
Version: Final   
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Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Attachments: specfile patch to create additional lsb-release package

Description dann frazier 2009-03-09 21:31:26 UTC
Created attachment 278242 [details]
specfile patch to create additional lsb-release package

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I would like to use the output of lsb_release to expose distribution information in a 3rd party application. However, I would like to avoid the dependency chain of the current SuSE lsb package.

Please consider splitting the lsb_release command out of the lsb package.

fyi, precedent for this exists in Debian 5.0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Need to install lsb to obtain the lsb_release command, pulling in a large amount of dependencies.

Expected Results:  
lsb_release is provided by a separate package - e.g. lsb-release. lsb-release is a requirement of the lsb package. If lsb-release is installed and the lsb package is not, the output of the lsb_release doesn't claim compliancy with any lsb modules.
Comment 2 Thorsten Kukuk 2009-06-17 12:27:18 UTC
*** Bug 513893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2009-07-08 06:19:08 UTC
*** Bug 520022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2009-07-15 04:36:33 UTC
Patch provided. No priority or target milestone set. Will we see this in 11.2?
Comment 5 Thorsten Kukuk 2009-07-20 13:36:20 UTC
Submitted as seperate packages.