[Arm-dev] Bug: Missing symlink /etc/redhat-release

[Karanbir Singh]

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On 24/07/16 15:13, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:31:37PM +0200, Artem Sidorenko wrote:
>> Hey Centos ARM list,
>> 
>> As requested via twitter today [1],
>> 
>> On the current Raspberry Pi 3 image the /etc/redhat-release isn't
>> a symlink to centos-release like on x86, but a file with "Derived
>> from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (Source)" [2].
>> 
>> This might lead to errors in the OS auto detection, like with
>> Chef [3].
> 
> Yup, this affected libguestfs 
> (https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/1ff463e8692aae4313bd5
b42bb6f09932bb63392).
>
>  IMHO it's up to Chef to fix their OS detection like we did.

at the least though, from our side, lets get to /etc/centos-release
and /etc/redhat-release looking the same as they do on corrosponding
x86_64 installs. and have /etc/centos-release-upstream report the
upstream 'derived from' bit.


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