Re: [CentOS-devel] enhancing /etc/*-release

On 03/31/2015 11:15 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

On 31 March 2015 at 14:09, Howard Johnson <merlin@mwob.org.uk mailto:merlin@mwob.org.uk> wrote:

On 22/02/2015 23:19, Karanbir Singh wrote:

    /etc/centos-release:
    CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)

    /etc/redhat-release
    Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)


Yay, thread necromancy.

This change is causing some surprise, because (as least some)
config management tools are mis-identifying centos 7.  What
problem did it solve?

What tools are broken?

live quotes from #centos: <MerlinTHP> duritong: what is facter identifying 7.1 as? <duritong> MerlinTHP: RedHat <duritong> but it isn't able to figure out the release version