[CentOS-devel] Closing out CentOS 6 Bugs
JohnS
jses27 at gmail.comThu Jan 6 15:01:45 UTC 2011
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On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:29 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:42:00AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I am keen on looking at using a centos-release with a link over from > > redhat-release, but lets consider / look at the implications and > > fallouts before deciding on something for sure. There should not be any > > reason to patch redhat-lsb; whatever we do should not, ideally, have any > > impact on code and expectations from other apps ( specially since there > > might be implications to third party apps that we cant / dont want to > > have a feedback loop into ) > > Third-party proprietary programs which look for /etc/redhat-release are > often (already in CentOS 5) confused by finding something other than an > exact Red Hat version string there. There's really nothing we can do about > that, although having separate files allows /etc/centos-release to contain > the real information while local admins can edit /etc/redhat-release to have > whatever e.g. Oracle is looking for. > > Of course, this can be done whether or not the file is originally a symlink. Noted... John / em2
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