On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:46 +1000, John Newbigin wrote: > 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. > Red Hat, Inc. is not at all happy with CentOS providing a RedHat looking /etc/redhat-release. I wanted to do that, but I was told that would be a big no-no :( I also thought about (and tested) 2 lines (a RHEL one and a CentOS one) ... that also didn't look good to the legal world ... sorry. Things we could do (and get away with) in CentOS-2 and CentOS-3 are drawing the attention of the upstream provider in CentOS-4. I guess a two week turn around got their attention on release :) > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050511/e467a4a3/attachment-0005.sig>