Respin (revisited)

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri Aug 24 19:27:47 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.

Is this written down somewhere?




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