Rawhide: similar systems reports different operating system

[Antonio M]

2009/1/29 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de>:
> 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
>
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$ su
Password:
[root at Casa antonio]# find /etc -name system-release | xargs -t cat
cat /etc/system-release
Fedora release 10.91 (Rawhide)
[root at Casa antonio]#  rpm -qa plymouth\*
plymouth-plugin-solar-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-scripts-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-utils-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-plugin-label-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
plymouth-libs-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
[root at Casa antonio]# rpm -V plymouth-scripts fedora-release
S.5....T  c /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
S.5....T  c /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
S.5....T  c /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo


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Antonio Montagnani
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