[sle-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is now Beta 1!

[Mike Marion]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 04:24:05PM +0000, Bynoe, Ronald J wrote:

> We noticed that /etc/SuSE-release is missing from the Beta1 images.
> 
> Was it omitted or has it been fully deprecated? If it has been deprecated, then
> anything depnding on CPython's platform.py is going to be broken, as it doesn't
> currently support os-release as far as I can tell.

Just ran into this yesterday as well, it's clear in the 12.3 file at
least:
==
$ cat /etc/SuSE-release 
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12
PATCHLEVEL = 3
# This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or release.
# Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.
==

Already made mods to some of our scripts that had been looking at
SuSE-release.  Worried about the EDA software we support since those
ISVs are slow to change. Back in the early days of us using sles we had
to even spoof redhat-release files just to run many tools.

-- 
Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com