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


On 31 March 2015 at 14:09, Howard Johnson <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