fedora-release-notes package

[Murray McAllister]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:23 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule, on
>  > the 1st of April, a "fedora-release-notes" package is sent to Fedora
>  > release engineering. What exactly is this package? Is it something for
>  > people to install?
>
>  That's correct.  Once all the translations are done and we have the PO
>  files in hand, we run "make release-srpm" in release-notes/devel/ .
>  This downloads the current CVS HEAD of some other modules: about-fedora,
>  homepage, readme-burning-isos, readme-live-image, and readme.
>
>  From each of these modules we build the required files in all languages
>  marked in those modules (via their individual po/LINGUAS files, same as
>  many other applications).  We also build the release notes in HTML, and
>  then make a great big tarball out of everything.
>
>  That tarball is imported into the Fedora Package CVS repository, as a
>  source tarball for that RPM, the same way a package maintainer would do
>  for any package.  (We also maintain a specfile in our CVS that is copied
>  to the Fedora Package CVS.  That's where we do testing of new tool stuff
>  before we start messing with the "real" package CVS.
>
>  Once in the Fedora Package CVS, the package is built by the normal
>  packager toolchain (through koji and bodhi, and tagged for the distro)
>  just like any other package.  The fedora-release-notes package is
>  required by the fedora-release package, so it ends up on pretty much all
>  systems.
>
>  To test or build the 'release-srpm' target, you need to have the
>  "Authoring and Publishing" group and the "w3m" package installed via
>  yum.
>

Thanks!

So when fedora-release-notes is installed, does that mean people can
view them by going System -> Documentatoin -> [something]?

If this is the case, will this be on the Fedora 9 beta desktop?

Cheers,

Murray.

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