[CentOS] Re: centos] Hewlett Packard Server support packs
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Wed May 11 23:59:46 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:46 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> I am pretty sure that they are shell scripts and they are looking for
> strings in /etc/redhat-release
>
> Can someone with RHEL post a real /etc/redhat-release for us too look at.
>
> IMHO, CentOS should provide a RedHat looking redhat-release and a centos
> specific centos-release.
>
> John.
>
Red Hat, Inc. is not at all happy with CentOS providing a RedHat
looking /etc/redhat-release. I wanted to do that, but I was told that
would be a big no-no :(
I also thought about (and tested) 2 lines (a RHEL one and a CentOS
one) ... that also didn't look good to the legal world ... sorry.
Things we could do (and get away with) in CentOS-2 and CentOS-3 are
drawing the attention of the upstream provider in CentOS-4. I guess a
two week turn around got their attention on release :)
> R P Herrold wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Hammond wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to install the HP PSP on a CentOS 3.4 server but it keeps
> >> telling me, only on certain rpms mind you,
> >> that the OS is not supported. I have made the modifications to
> >> redhat-release which cleared up some of the initial
> >> errors I was having but not all. Where else would the rpms be getting
> >> the OS info from? Better yet, has anyone
> >> managed to get the Linux PSP to install on a CentOS box?
> >
> >
> > almost certainly it is looking for certain strings which it is not
> > finding. strace is your friend
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