CentOS - Apr 2015 - [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I didn't see any indication there that you were planning to turn the
> /etc/redhat-release file into a symlink.
In CentOS, /etc/redhat-release has always been a symlink to 
/etc/centos-release.

Steve

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> I didn't see any indication there that you were planning to turn
the
>> /etc/redhat-release file into a symlink.
>
>
> In CentOS, /etc/redhat-release has always been a symlink to
> /etc/centos-release.
>
Well if you define 'always' as 'for CentOS6 and later...  So I guess
I
have redhat-lsb installed on all of my CentOS6 boxes and hadn't
noticed that particular breakage before.   To be fair, I consider it
to be a bug in OCSinventory to not follow a symlink to the contents,
but it does point out that any arbitrary change is going to break
something that trusted your previous version's functionality.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Well if you define 'always' as 'for CentOS6 and later...
Yes, you are right. I was relying on my obviously faulty and aged memory, 
so I checked on my two remaining CentOS 5 boxes. There is no 
/etc/centos-release file there at all, only an /etc/redhat-release, so 
obviously not a symlink at all. More coffee.

Steve