Bugs item #1274489, was opened at 2005-08-27 00:23
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Category: Installation
Group: 4.2
Status: Open
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
>Assigned to: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Summary: redhat-release package not installed on RHEL3

Initial Comment:
Since redhat-release was removed from
redhat-3as-*.rpmlist, redhat-release RPM is not
installed on the compute nodes.

This was done so that we can support clones which may
not have redhat-release RPM.

This does not happen on RHEL4, so supposedly a RPM in
the RHEL4 rpmlist is adding the redhat-release RPM
because of dependencies...  perhaps we can find out
which RPM this is and add it to the redhat-3as-*.rpmlist?

Another option is to put redhat-release back in the
rpmlist, but then we cannot support RHEL3 clones.

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>Comment By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Date: 2005-08-30 23:57

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- I added /etc/redhat-release to rpmlist and this works on
RHEL3u5 x86
- I checked CentOS 3/4, ScientificLinux 3/4 and they all
provide /etc/redhat-release (even though they may be
provided by centos-release and sl-release RPMs respectively)
- Fix checked into branch-4-2 r3642,3644, trunk r3643

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Comment By: Erich Focht (efocht)
Date: 2005-08-30 06:09

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Can somebody please explain why we don't simply add another 
packagelist for Centos and one for SL? It is wrong to say we 
"don't support" something which is just two clicks away. 
My opinion is that we support one RHEL clone once there is a 
selectable rpmlist for it. The tiny step of choosing this list in the 
build image step is affordable even for the lamest sysadmin. 
 
OTOH the effort of keeping the rpmlists of original RHEL and 
clones in sync is our duty. And that is simple enough, too. 

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Comment By: John (muglerj)
Date: 2005-08-29 13:13

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bumping as per the con call.

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Comment By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Date: 2005-08-27 14:23

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I just checked...  RHEL3's initscripts RPM does not require
/etc/redhat-release (at least the one in u5).

rpm -qp --requires initscripts-7.31.22.EL-2.i386.rpm | grep
release

returns nothing.

Fedora Core 3 and RHEL4's initscripts RPMs do though...

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Comment By: David N. Lombard (dnl)
Date: 2005-08-27 14:15

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initscripts requires /etc/redhat-release on RHL9 and FC2. 
Does it not on RHEL3?

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Comment By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Date: 2005-08-27 13:19

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Well the image still builds, and the node can still boot up
but you'll notice that you won't see things like:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3...

at the console login.

Also, during boot up you may see messages saying
'/etc/redhat-release not found or missing'...

I can test it out again, but I guess we just need to add
packages which require /etc/redhat-release into RHEL3's
rpmlists...

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Comment By: David N. Lombard (dnl)
Date: 2005-08-27 07:19

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Hmm... Both RHL9 and FC2 have packages requiring
/etc/redhat-release, which is only provided by
redhat-release-9-3 and fedora-release-2-4 respectively.  So,
the appropriate *-release package should automagically be
loaded through dependency resolution, else the image build
wouldn't complete...

So, did RHEL3 suddenly stop building?  I tested it just last
week!

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