[Cialug] A word to the wise

[Dave Weis]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tom Pohl wrote:
> Tonight, I learned an important lesson about redhat type boxes and yum!
> Yum apparently uses /etc/redhat-release to tell what version and flavor 
> distro you are using.  If you change /etc/redhat-release to reflect a certain 
> "compatible" version of a different redhat operating system (say redhat-4 
> instead of fedora core 5 (or even 6)), make sure you change it BACK before 
> next running yum update.

"Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. ..." :-)

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