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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/03/2015 21:18, Manuel Wolfshant
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/31/2015 11:15 PM, Stephen John
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On 31 March 2015 at 14:09, Howard
              Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  On 22/02/2015 23:19, Karanbir Singh wrote:<br>
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                    /etc/centos-release:<br>
                    CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)<br>
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                    /etc/redhat-release<br>
                    Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)<br>
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                </span> Yay, thread necromancy.<br>
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                This change is causing some surprise, because (as least
                some) config management tools are mis-identifying centos
                7.  What problem did it solve?<span class="HOEnZb"><font
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              <div>What tools are broken?<br>
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      live quotes from #centos:<br>
      <MerlinTHP> duritong: what is facter identifying 7.1 as?<br>
      <duritong> MerlinTHP: RedHat<br>
      <duritong> but it isn't able to figure out the release
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    Yeah, looking at the facter sources, there's this bit of code:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/blob/master/lib/src/facts/linux/operating_system_resolver.cc#L126">https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/blob/master/lib/src/facts/linux/operating_system_resolver.cc#L126</a><br>
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    It's only looking at /etc/redhat-release, and it's looking for
    various strings in that file to work out what OS it is.  As the C7.1
    redhat-release says "Red Hat" in it, it's identifying the OS as Red
    Hat.<br>
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    I'm going to poke 7.1 with a few more tools and see what they say.<br>
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    HJ<br>
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