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