install not recognizing RHEL

[wmcdonald at gmail.com (Will McDonald)]

On 19/09/05, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> >
> > Isn't the installer just a shell script? Couldn't you just prod around
> > inside and see what it's specifically looking for?
> >
> ----
> damn - why didn't I think of that?
> 
> relevant section (I think)...
> 
>       case "$LINUX_DIST" in
>          RedHat)
>                   #redhat kernel version
>                   rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.4.2" )
>                   if [ $rtn -eq 2 ];then
>                     echo $INST_REDHAT_MINIMAL
>                     exit 1
>                   fi
>                   rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.5.0" )
>                   if [ $rtn -eq 1 ];then
>                     DIST_TOO_NEW="YES"
>                   fi
>                   if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
>                     cat /etc/redhat-release | ${GREP} 'release 3|
> release 2.1|3.0' | $GREP -v $GREP_S 1>/dev/null 2>&1
>                     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>                        OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES"
>                     fi
>                   else
>                     OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES"
>                   fi
>                   ;;
> 
> Looks strange - (I took the liberty of removing some of the line
> indentations for readability). I would think that the 'release 3' part
> should succeed.

What's GREP_S being set to elsewhere? Really you could safely just
comment out everything from "if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ];" to its
corresponding "fi" and just set OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" in there and
bypass the rest.

Will.