[CentOS-devel] Closing out CentOS 6 Bugs

Thu Jan 6 15:15:21 UTC 2011
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 21:21 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 04:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sounds good to me, lets go with the symlink unless anyone comes up with 
> a reason not to ( and if so, please file at : #4593 )

Noted there

John / em2