On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
os-release has been at /7/ since the first CentOS 7 release - what extra value does having 7.1 in there bring ? At best it just says that your centos-release rpm has not been updated and/or there is no system level state change that required metadata in that file.
If you know that some feature was added or bug fixed in RH 7.1, or more relevant, your boss or security officer or application developer knows that, there is very much value in being able to say that CentOS 7.1-whatever includes the same features/fixes, and that your automated inventory database will show which machines have been updated to that version. Otherwise you'll spend the rest of the day discussing how fix x is done in package-revs-n1 fix y is in package-rev-n2 and how to check for it. Sometimes you need the latter detail, but mostly not, especially for the application guys.
Note that any CentOS machine, updated to the same point in time, regardless of where and how it was privisioned should give you the same functional package set. This is an important thing.
Yes, but how do you explain that relationship to someone who only has a summary of the RH releases or where the Centos release stands compared to it. For example, what would you have said a few days ago?