On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:02:26PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. Bugzilla'd as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187250 -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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