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DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DISTRO-INFO(1)

NAME

distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

SYNOPSIS

distro-info [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution. On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info. All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

OPTIONS

date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if set, otherwise today)
display help message and exit
list all known versions
display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. MILESTONE may be one of created, release, eol, or eol-server. If no milestone is specified, assume release. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone.
latest development version
series to calculate the version for
latest stable version
list of all supported versions, including development releases
list of all unsupported stable versions
print the codename (default)
print the release version
print the full name

SEE ALSO

debian-distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)

AUTHOR

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.

August 2013 distro-info