[CentOS] Re: centos] Hewlett Packard Server support packs

Wed May 11 23:46:41 UTC 2005
John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au>

I am pretty sure that they are shell scripts and they are looking for 
strings in /etc/redhat-release

Can someone with RHEL post a real /etc/redhat-release for us too look at.

IMHO, CentOS should provide a RedHat looking redhat-release and a centos 
specific centos-release.

John.

R P Herrold wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Hammond wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to install the HP PSP on a CentOS 3.4 server but it keeps 
>> telling me, only on certain rpms mind you,
>> that the OS is not supported.  I have made the modifications to 
>> redhat-release which cleared up some of the initial
>> errors I was having but not all.  Where else would the rpms be getting 
>> the OS info from?  Better yet, has anyone
>> managed to get the Linux PSP to install on a CentOS box?
> 
> 
> almost certainly it is looking for certain strings which it is not 
> finding.  strace is your friend
> 
> - Russ Herrold
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