fedora-release-notes package

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 07:39 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it has been and is.

If you go to System -> Help you can see the Release Notes on the front
page.  If you use KDE it's also on the help menu.  We've had this
since... FC-6, I think.

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