[PLUG] CentOS 4 and RHEL 4
Joe Pruett
joey at clean.q7.com
Thu May 7 21:20:40 UTC 2009
> 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?
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