Split-off package config from release note packages (was: Release Notes Errata - Wiki Freeze)

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 08:15 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
> > MM> Maybe a good idea to break the release notes out of the
> > MM> fedora-release package?
> > 
> > If fedora-release is getting love, I wonder if it would be possible to
> > remove the repositories from it as well.  They just cause problems for
> > those of us with local mirrors.

I would do it the other way, split out the package configuration into
a fedora-package-config subpackage.

> The entire point of fedora-release is basically to contain this stuff
> which ends up having to change at the last minute so that we can contain
> the number of changes which are needed when we're trying to build final
> trees.  Also, it means one stop shopping for changing from, say, Fedora
> to JoeBob's Distro :)

But then hell breaks loose and people accuse JoeBob of forking fedora,
when all he wanted to do is either provide decent mirrors (local or
not) for his users or additional repos. Having to replace
fedora-release to do that results in for example:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnMahowald/ATrpmsWarning

Please check out the package split that ATrpms has been providing for
FC3 and FC4:

http://atrpms.net/name/fedora-release/

contents are the same as for the monolithic fedora-release package,
users only get the freedom to replace package configuration with their
own liking.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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