On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:48:10AM +0200, Zdenek Sedlak wrote: > On 2016-07-25 10:17, Artem Sidorenko wrote: > > From the commit message: > >> In newer CentOS 7 versions /etc/redhat-release says that the distro is > >> derived from RHEL, so we need to look at /etc/centos-release for > >> actually identifying it as CentOS. > > If I understand this right, this is not a bug related to ARM images, but > > a general change in CentOS? > > > > Artem > > > > On 07/24/2016 04:13 PM, 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/1ff463e8692aae4313bd5b42bb6f09932bb63392). > >> > >> IMHO it's up to Chef to fix their OS detection like we did. > >> > >> Rich. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Arm-dev mailing list > > Arm-dev at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > Hi, > > > wouldn't be the checking of /etc/os-release file a better way, how to > detect the distro, since CentOS/RHEL/OEL/SC 7 is using systemd? Not necessarily, since we need to detect RHEL/CentOS releases back to CentOS 3, not to mention dozens of other Linux distros, Windows, *BSD, etc. Not all the world is systemd. Not all the world is even Linux. However if os-release exists, we will use it in some circumstances. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org