Plymouth and re-branding

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 5 16:29:39 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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 has never happened really. I would like to avoid introducing my own 
packages into the compose as much as possible and this seems to be the 
best way to do it but I would take any good suggestions.

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

I tried that and Plymouth still displays the old text when booting up as 
a live cd and only gets the new text, post installation. If you figure 
out a way to do it, let me know. I tried a few things and never managed 
to get it right.

Rahul




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