File	Date	Author	Commit
debian	2014-01-10	Bryan Gartner	[cab343] updated debian/rpm packaging to use same source...
samples	2014-01-11	Bryan Gartner	[2a15b5] updated Ubuntu probes/samples
AUTHORS	2012-07-08	Bryan Gartner	[81c48c] recognizing contributors
COPYING	2012-05-01	Bryan Gartner	[ddf2c7] augment project with packaging content
ChangeLog	2014-01-11	Bryan Gartner	[2a15b5] updated Ubuntu probes/samples
INSTALL	2012-05-01	Bryan Gartner	[ddf2c7] augment project with packaging content
Makefile.am	2014-01-10	Bryan Gartner	[f86381] updated debian/rpm packaging to use same source...
NEWS	2012-05-01	Bryan Gartner	[ddf2c7] augment project with packaging content
README	2012-05-01	Bryan Gartner	[ddf2c7] augment project with packaging content
autogen.sh	2012-05-01	Bryan Gartner	[ddf2c7] augment project with packaging content
configure.ac	2014-01-04	Bryan Gartner	[e7b0b5] cleaned up native packaging artifacts, added di...
distro-id.dsc.in	2014-01-10	Bryan Gartner	[cab343] updated debian/rpm packaging to use same source...
distro-id.sh	2014-01-10	Bryan Gartner	[c282a3] updated Debian probes/samples
distro-id.spec.in	2014-01-10	Bryan Gartner	[cab343] updated debian/rpm packaging to use same source...
test.py	2014-01-11	Bryan Gartner	[2a15b5] updated Ubuntu probes/samples

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provides a standalone POSIX-shell script used to identify a Linux distribution.
Output is modeled after lsb_release output to be easily parseable.  This has
very few dependencies, and is intended to be functional in minimal OS installations.

Target applications include out-of-distro applications that need to expose OS
information (via SNMP, for example), or software that, for whatever reason, cannot
test for a given interface and must instead rely on heuristics.  If it is feasible
to test for an interface, it is recommended to do so instead of making assumptions
about a system.

The distro-id project is designed to deliver a single, standalone shell script that
can be copied and periodically resynced into software releases that make use of
it - similar to config.sub/config.guess - and can also be delivered in a packaged
format with some samples and tests.