On 31/03/2015 21:18, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 03/31/2015 11:15 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> >> On 31 March 2015 at 14:09, Howard Johnson <merlin at mwob.org.uk >> <mailto:merlin at mwob.org.uk>> wrote: >> >> >> On 22/02/2015 23:19, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >> /etc/centos-release: >> CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) >> >> /etc/redhat-release >> Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source) >> >> >> Yay, thread necromancy. >> >> This change is causing some surprise, because (as least some) >> config management tools are mis-identifying centos 7. What >> problem did it solve? >> >> >> 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 Yeah, looking at the facter sources, there's this bit of code: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/blob/master/lib/src/facts/linux/operating_system_resolver.cc#L126 It's only looking at /etc/redhat-release, and it's looking for various strings in that file to work out what OS it is. As the C7.1 redhat-release says "Red Hat" in it, it's identifying the OS as Red Hat. I'm going to poke 7.1 with a few more tools and see what they say. -- HJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150331/44ff92b5/attachment-0008.html>