rawhide report: 20060307 changes

Sander Hoentjen tjikkun at xs4all.nl
Tue Mar 7 14:18:14 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:12 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Probably should be but wont matter
> > 
> > ls -l  /etc/redhat-release
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 20 12:54 /etc/redhat-release ->
> > fedora-release 
> > 
> 
> no, it shouldn't be.
> 
> it uses that to check what provides redhat-release.
> 
> fedora-release provides, redhat-release. Having that as the default
> means that yum will work on fedora, redhat, centos, yellowdog etc etc
> etc
> 
> -sv
> 
Thank you for the info, i thought it pointed to a package, not a file
in /etc
Makes sense this way.

Sander




More information about the test mailing list