On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Tom Rockwell wrote:
Hi,
On SL5.7 the command 'lsb_release -a' gives 'Distributor ID:' as
'ScientificSL'. On SL6.1 this value is 'Scientific', which is closer to
how TUV and other distros behave. I'm trying out some software (opscode
ohai) on SL5.7 that is referencing this to determine the distribution
type, but the software knows about 'Scientific' and not 'ScientificSL'.
Any consideration of changing the /etc/redhat-release contents in SL5.X?
I figuring to work around this by striking 'SL' from
/etc/redhat-release. 'lsb_release -a' then gives the result I'm looking
for.
Thanks,
Tom Rockwell
MSU
Tom,
Thanks for reporting this issue. We will highly consider this for the
next release of SL 5 .
A question for the "list". Does anyone know if this would "break"
anything?
-Connie Sieh
