Re: streamlining fedora-release

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:49:48PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 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.

It might be still worth doing, just to avoid the duplication.

Anyway, any thoughts on the major parts of my proposal?

Zbyszek

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