On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Anders F Björklund <afb at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Peter wrote: > >>>> I would love to see /etc/os-release added to CentOS5 and CentOS6 as well. Keep up the good work! >>> >>> But os-release is a systemd "feature"*. Seems unlikely to make it ? >> >> Really? On my system it's a very simple text file included with the >> centos-release package. I honestly can't see how having sys-v-init or >> upstart would make it impossible or even remotely difficult to create >> such a text file and include it in CentOS 5 and 6. > > Sure, and as such it's probably "better" than the lsb_release *program*. > But you would still have to install something extra, in the old releases ? And in *all* the old management tools that need to detect the operating system, even the obsolete releases.Please don't muck with stable workflow: And for the inevitable XKCD cartoon about this: https://xkcd.com/1172/