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Old 24th August 2012, 07:56 PM
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Question /etc/redhat-release
After an upgrade from F16 (via preupgrade-cli), mine says:

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Generic release 17 (Generic)
I expected Fedora mentioned in there..?

What does yours say (fresh install/preupgrade/yum upgrade)?
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Old 24th August 2012, 08:22 PM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
I have a fresh install of Fedora 17 and mine says
Quote:
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
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Old 24th August 2012, 11:02 PM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
Bizarre..:

Code:
$ rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release 
fedora-release-16-1.noarch
generic-release-17-1.noarch
They are both installed and provide lots of the same files..?!

Code:
$ rpm -ql fedora-release-16-1.noarch 
/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-16-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-16-secondary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-arm
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-s390
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-s390x
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-16
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-16/GPL
Code:
$ rpm -ql  generic-release-17-1.noarch
/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/os-release
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-17-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-17-secondary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-arm
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-arm64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-armhfp
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-s390
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-s390x
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/generic-release-17
/usr/share/doc/generic-release-17/GPL
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Old 24th August 2012, 11:11 PM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
I wonder if "yum distro-sync" would help?
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
But /etc/redhat-release is old-school and the new distro independent file is /etc/os-release.



Quote:
[stevea@crucibulum Desktop]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="17 (Beefy Miracle)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=17
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17"
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Old 25th August 2012, 02:08 AM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
actually, generic-release is the package that you install if you don't want to use the Fedora logos, icons, etc..

That is probably what is putting the "Generic release 17 (Generic)" into your file instead of " Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) "

I would uninstall generic release and reinstall fedora-release.

Code:
yum remove generic-release
yum reinstall fedora-release
Edit:

Thinking about this... You may not be able to just remove the generic-release package without it removing just about everything in your system as a dependency. But, reinstalling the fedora-release package should overwrite the generic-release stuff.
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Old 30th August 2012, 10:27 AM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
Well, I didn't intentionally install generic-release, preupgrade+yum must have done it. I'll try suggested distro-sync and installing fedora-release and report back.

To me this seems like a (minor) bug in the upgrade process from F16.
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Old 30th August 2012, 01:21 PM
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
Quote:
Originally Posted by DBelton View Post
Thinking about this... You may not be able to just remove the generic-release package without it removing just about everything in your system as a dependency.
One could do:
PHP Code:
rpm -e --nodeps generic-release
yum reinstall fedora-release 
Why is there actually an abundance of these release information files?
I can spot at least 5 of them on my installs (with some of them being symbolic links)
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
Because it is Linux!
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Re: /etc/redhat-release
Quote:
rpm -e --nodeps generic-release-17-1.noarch
yum update fedora-release --releasever=17 -y
yum distro-sync
Hope that fixes it.
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