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