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.