On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:33:37PM +0100, 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 :( another less-than-optimal solution would be for app developers to start using lsb_release to find out what distro and release they are installing onto. of course, that's a different problem, in more than one way, at least one of which is that lsb_release is not installed by default. I'm switching the app installer for the program I maintain (at work) to use lsb_release just because it's so much easier than groping /etc/redhat-release. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------