[PLUG] CentOS 4 and RHEL 4

[Joe Pruett]

> The software I'm installing is doing a query against rpm (rpm -qi rpm) to
> determine the vendor, and bombing out when it sees CentOS in that field.
> Anybody know of a way to update that field in the rpm database to read Red
> Hat, Inc.?

that is sleazy.  usually things just check /etc/redhat-release, but they 
must have caught on to how easy it is to lie :-).  what i'd suggest is 
making a fake rpm script that returns what they expect to see.  fiddling 
with the rpm database is bad.  hopefully this is just at install time?