[CentOS-devel] Closing out CentOS 6 Bugs

Thu Jan 6 05:00:28 UTC 2011
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> 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.

Yeah, I've been tweaking such tools to do 'cat /etc/redhat-release |
awk '{print $(NF-2}'` to get the major release number, instead of the
more common "print the sixth element commands.