[CentOS-devel] enhancing /etc/*-release

[Florian La Roche]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:52:52PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 10:33 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > On 03/31/2015 10:00 PM, Howard Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 31/03/2015 21:53, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >>> what tools are these / can we reach out and help them get the right
> >>> content ? this solves the problem of establishing an upstream, giving
> >>> people who only need a lose knit baseline match and also giving people
> >>> the centos-7 release stream that we've been building up. At the time
> >>> of 7 1406 release, this was flagged up as the biggest issue that we
> >>> need to fix from the distro side of things. 
> >>
> >> Hmm, ok.  Can we put that data somewhere else instead (an
> >> /etc/redhat-upstream-release file or something) and revert the
> >> redhat-release change?  We can't expect everyone to run around updating
> >> their system management tools for a change in a minor point release :(
> >>
> > 
> > we are trying to thrash out a possible solution here. stand by
> > 
> 
> ok so we are issuing a new centos-release file as an update and a base
> replacement that will resolve this issue - and we are also investigating
> redoing the isos in a way that we can solve this problem for people
> doing fresh installs.
> 
> stand by for more details

Thanks for the update coming in, /etc/redhat-release is
really an important file to get right...

Seems also the ISO images are refreshed with this.

best regards,

Florian La Roche