Plymouth and re-branding

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 5 16:26:19 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> It pulls the information from /etc/fedora-release - there's nothing to
>> do in plymouth itself. If your /etc/fedora-release comes from a correctly
>> rebranded package, the right thing should happen.
>
> Well, here is the thing. I run sed on /etc/fedora-release, I get a  
> rebranded distro everywhere except for plymouth which already has picked  
> up the name and won't let it go. Now I did replace fedora-release with  
> my own foo-release but then I realized, I have to maintain my own  
> repository now as well inorder to not break the upgrade path. I would  
> like to avoid doing that by just not having Plymouth display that text  
> at all.

Running 'sed' on distribution provided files seems like a bad way
to go about it. What if fedora-release gets updated upstream?

(That being said, you could certainly do a trigger to do the sed
at the right point after the package gets installed.)

Bill




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