Re: streamlining fedora-release

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El vie, 10-11-2017 a las 09:12 -0500, Neal Gompa escribió:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > > The fedora-release package contains stuff that is tied to each
> > > > Fedora
> > > > version and changes slowly, and it also contains the preset
> > > > files for
> > > > systemd units, which change fairly often (a few requests per
> > > > month).
> > > 
> > > Why not have a separate fedora-presets then? Just like fedora-
> > > repos was
> > > split out from fedora-release several releases ago.
> > 
> > Well, pfff, no particular reason, at least from my side. Just
> > opening
> > a new package and going through the (trivial) review, etc., is a
> > bit
> > of up-front effort, and then releasing updates for two packages is
> > always a bit more effort then for one. So instead, I'd want a good
> > reason
> > to make another package and how that is going to solve something.
> > So far I
> > haven't seen anything except some hypothetical issues.
> 
> This would allow us to deduplicate the presets shipped in
> generic-release and fedora-release, wouldn't it?

We do not keep them in sync between fedora-release and generic-release
this is because generic-release is there just to provide an example of
how you would setup a -release package for a custom forked OS. it is
not intended to be a complete drop in for fedora-release.

Dennis


> And as long has it has a "system-presets" Provides, downstream folks
> can swap them easily enough.
> 
> 
> 
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