Split-off package config from release note packages (was: Release Notes Errata - Wiki Freeze)

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:02:26PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 08:15 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > >>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
> > > MM> Maybe a good idea to break the release notes out of the
> > > MM> fedora-release package?
> > > 
> > > If fedora-release is getting love, I wonder if it would be possible to
> > > remove the repositories from it as well.  They just cause problems for
> > > those of us with local mirrors.
> 
> I would do it the other way, split out the package configuration into
> a fedora-package-config subpackage.
> 
> > The entire point of fedora-release is basically to contain this stuff
> > which ends up having to change at the last minute so that we can contain
> > the number of changes which are needed when we're trying to build final
> > trees.  Also, it means one stop shopping for changing from, say, Fedora
> > to JoeBob's Distro :)
> 
> But then hell breaks loose and people accuse JoeBob of forking fedora,
> when all he wanted to do is either provide decent mirrors (local or
> not) for his users or additional repos. Having to replace
> fedora-release to do that results in for example:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnMahowald/ATrpmsWarning
> 
> Please check out the package split that ATrpms has been providing for
> FC3 and FC4:
> 
> http://atrpms.net/name/fedora-release/
> 
> contents are the same as for the monolithic fedora-release package,
> users only get the freedom to replace package configuration with their
> own liking.

Bugzilla'd as

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187250

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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