[Mageia-dev] Discrepancy between /etc/version and /etc/release - which one for MIRRORLIST

[James Kerr]

On 08/06/11 08:42, Oliver Burger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after some discussion in the German forums, I saw, that there are
> discrepancies between /etc/version and /etc/release, both coming from
> the mageia-release-common-1-2.mga1 package.
>
> While /etc/release calls my system
> ----------
> Mageia release 1 (Official) for i586
> ----------
>
> it is called
> ----------
> 1 2 cauldron
> ----------
>
> by /etc/version.
>
> Which one of those defines the branch used by MIRRORLIST

I thought that /etc/product.id was used.

Jim