Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Karanbir Singh wrote:

John Summerfield wrote:

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Eh? Doesn't Anaconda look at the release file to see what it's supposed to upgrade _from_? If it doesn't recognise it, how will it know how to upgrade?

you might want to read up on what anaconda is and when its used. you seem muchly confused here.

See function getRedHatReleaseString in /usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py

It's looking at the release file, and the content matters.

I don't think I'm very confused at all.

(it happens I was looking in the general area for other reasons).

To override the contents of that, you specify "upgradeany" when booting.

Now, if people go creating their own centos-release package and changing the contents of that file (as they should), then they are inviting trouble.