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?
Thanks Chris
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
- Russ Herrold
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.
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
- Russ Herrold
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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
Ok, I got things working. I had missed a little piece of the entry in /etc/redhat-release. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (taroon)" is what is in there now as well as in /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net. I will revert back as soon as I get one issue taken care of but the above is correct. I am not sure if "(taroon)" is required for other things but it doesn't appear to be with the HP stuff.
Chris
Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:40 -0400, 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?
maybe /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
Ok, changed them but still the same issue. Could it be that it needs to be restarted or something reloaded?
Thanks for the pointer! Chris
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:40 -0400, 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?
maybe /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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