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

Tue Mar 31 20:18:29 UTC 2015
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 03/31/2015 11:15 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> On 31 March 2015 at 14:09, Howard Johnson <merlin at mwob.org.uk 
> <mailto:merlin at mwob.org.uk>> wrote:
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>     On 22/02/2015 23:19, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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>         /etc/centos-release:
>         CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
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>         /etc/redhat-release
>         Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)
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>     Yay, thread necromancy.
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>     This change is causing some surprise, because (as least some)
>     config management tools are mis-identifying centos 7.  What
>     problem did it solve?
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> What tools are broken?
live quotes from #centos:
<MerlinTHP> duritong: what is facter identifying 7.1 as?
<duritong> MerlinTHP: RedHat
<duritong> but it isn't able to figure out the release version
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