[WBEL-devel] An "Issue" with WBEL (pun intended)

[John A. Tamplin]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John Morris wrote:

> The RHEL3 file should be pretty close to:
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3.0AS (Taroon)
> Kernel \r on an \m

Examples from real machines:

RHEL ES 2.1u2:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 (Panama)
Kernel \r on an \m

RHEL WS 3:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon)
Kernel \r on an \m

RHEL WS 3 on IA64:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon)

RHEL ES 3:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)
Kernel \r on an \m

I don't have AS3, but I assume it would be the same just replacing ES with 
AS.  Also, based on what Veritas Netbackup looks for in 
/etc/redhat-release, I would assume AS2.1 (not update 2 or 3) would look 
like:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 2.1AS
Kernel \r on an \m

Perhaps in the FAQ we can put a note explaining how to extract just the 
redhat-release file from RedHat's RPMs if it is required for a particular 
package.

Also, based on the packages I have looked at, they look for a line 
matching a regex in the file, so it might be possible to do something like

Whitebox Enterprise Linux release 3.0 (Liberation) - compatible with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
Kernel \r on an \m

It is really ugly, but the browser user agent strings are a precedent and 
it might help less technically inclined users run WBEL.

-- 
John A. Tamplin					jat@jaet.org
770/436-5387 HOME				4116 Manson Ave
                		 		Smyrna, GA  30082-3723