[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Apr 2 15:56:45 UTC 2015


On 04/02/2015 04:43 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 04/02/2015 10:59 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>>
>>> It's not just the name of the ISO file. c.f. the VERSION_ID variable in
>>> /etc/os-release
>>>
>> In that particular place it is actually rather important, but that is
>> orthogonal to the ISO name.
>>
>>
> I agree, but this thread started off with a more general discussion of
> release/version numbering.
> 

os-release has been at /7/ since the first CentOS 7 release - what extra
value does having 7.1 in there bring ? At best it just says that your
centos-release rpm has not been updated and/or there is no system level
state change that required metadata in that file.

Note that any CentOS machine, updated to the same point in time,
regardless of where and how it was privisioned should give you the same
functional package set. This is an important thing.

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