Respin (revisited)

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Aug 24 19:20:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:13:12 -0500
Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

> We keep Fedora up to date by means of the updates repo.  If the
> owners of the respin have an update to make, how does that work?  Is
> a respin always just a fixed point in time?  I know that a respin can
> use our own Updates repo (they would be smart to do so) but whatever
> makes their spin unique may also need updates.

If "whatever makes their spin unique" == packages outside of Fedora and
not served by fedora updates repos, they can't call it Fedora and they
likely need to provide their own hosting and their own update system
for their users.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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