On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Lance Davis wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
I am a bit puzzled at the versioning scheme of the RedHat clone family.
RedHat seems to use integer 4, Tao and Centos does the same. If you do
rpm -q --qf '%{version}\n' -f /etc/redhat-release
you get '4'.
However, Scientific Linux uses 4.0, and that seems to me to be a more logical choise, since presumable there are going to be versions 4.1, 4.2, etc.
Is there any good reason for the version of package centos-release NOT to be 4.0? It has a significance in automated scripts trying to work out which distribution and version you are running, and it seems silly to treat the different RHEL4 clones differently.
CentOS uses '4' purely and simply to be compatible with Dag's (and other) repos, whixch ae geared towards rhel using 4.
We used to use 4.x but had compaints that the configuration of yum was not compatible with that suggested by Dag for rhel.
I hope it was not changed only for me though. (Although I would be honoured for having that much impact)
I think it belongs to the 'as compatible to RHEL as possible' clause.
Maybe Scientific Linux is not meant to be as compatible as possible, but more a product based on RHEL, maybe the numbers might even deviate (like 4.1.1) ?
PS With RHEL3, TaoLinux was using 1. So you're lucky that at least everybody except Scientific Linux is using 4 now :)
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]