Planning next version of rpmdevtools

[Russell Harrison]

On 7/14/06, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about pushing the next version of rpmdevtools out soonish.
> It's tentatively versioned 5.0 to coincide with the oldest version of FC
> (and incidentally RHEL) it's meant to work with.
>
> The major thing I'm planning for in this release is dropping hardcoded
> "fedora-" prefix everywhere, including from the package name.  Very few
> things in the package are actually Fedora specific, at least after the
> changes I'm planning, see below.  And it's just annoying in executables
> and looks kind of silly.  I've done some research and haven't found
> things that would conflict with the renaming plan.


I'm thrilled to hear about this.  I've already been creating my rpms using
the fedora tools and then modifying them back to RHEL 4.  It will be a
delight to use the exact same tools for both Fedora and RHEL in the future.
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