Rawhide: similar systems reports different operating system

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:22:03 +0100, Antonio wrote:

> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:30:14 +0100, Antonio wrote:
> >
> >> >>>>> but Webmin reports one as:
> >> >>>>>  Operating system       Redhat Linux Fedora 10.90
> >> >>>>> and the other as:
> >> >>>>> Operating system        Redhat Linux Fedora 10.91
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Why???
> >
> > This is dumb. There is no product with that name. The company is called
> > "Red Hat", not "Redhat". And the distribution (or package collection) on
> > your machine is "Fedora", not "Redhat Linux Fedora". Why do they make up
> > their own names?
> >
> > As where the version comes from, please give proper details as almost
> > everyone else on these mailing-lists. Quote the exact commands you run to
> > query the "fedora-release" package on both machines. Alternatively, examine
> > the Webmin source code to find out what it does to read the Fedora version.
> > Perhaps it really parses /etc/fedora-release, but maybe it doesn't and checks
> > the fedora-release/redhat-release package version/release values.

> 
> you have missed my post where I say that I see different releases on
> the progress bar at start-up with same fedora-release in /etc, so
> Webmin is not the culprit.

And what's so difficult about gathering related details?
What do you get for...?

  find /etc -name system-release | xargs -t cat
  rpm -qa plymouth\*
  rpm -V plymouth-scripts fedora-release