[Fedora-packaging] forbid fedora or redhat in spec files?

Jarod Wilson jwilson at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 13:19:18 UTC 2008


Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:55 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> One use case that comes to mind: someone doing a spin that can't meet the 
>> Fedora criteria for still being called Fedora. In theory, simply replacing 
>> fedora-release and fedora-logos is sufficient, but in practice, Fedora (and/or 
>> Red Hat) shows up a few other places as well. In gnome, System->About Fedora 
>> still shows up, and System->About Fedora

Oops, meant "System->About Gnome" there.

>> still says "Distributor: Red Hat, 
>> Inc." (this one probably ought to say "Fedora Project" for Fedora...). In web 
>> pages, the apache identifier string is still "Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)", and I'm 
>> sure there are probably other cases as well.
> 
> Well then the theory is blatantly wrong.

Yep, that's exactly what I'm sayin'.

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com




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