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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