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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 8 June 2011 14:10, James Kerr <jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
>

AFAIK, yes, /etc/product.id is what urpmi uses to parse the MIRRORLIST
parameters.

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Ahmad Samir