On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:23 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule, on > > the 1st of April, a "fedora-release-notes" package is sent to Fedora > > release engineering. What exactly is this package? Is it something for > > people to install? > > That's correct. Once all the translations are done and we have the PO > files in hand, we run "make release-srpm" in release-notes/devel/ . > This downloads the current CVS HEAD of some other modules: about-fedora, > homepage, readme-burning-isos, readme-live-image, and readme. > > From each of these modules we build the required files in all languages > marked in those modules (via their individual po/LINGUAS files, same as > many other applications). We also build the release notes in HTML, and > then make a great big tarball out of everything. > > That tarball is imported into the Fedora Package CVS repository, as a > source tarball for that RPM, the same way a package maintainer would do > for any package. (We also maintain a specfile in our CVS that is copied > to the Fedora Package CVS. That's where we do testing of new tool stuff > before we start messing with the "real" package CVS. > > Once in the Fedora Package CVS, the package is built by the normal > packager toolchain (through koji and bodhi, and tagged for the distro) > just like any other package. The fedora-release-notes package is > required by the fedora-release package, so it ends up on pretty much all > systems. > > To test or build the 'release-srpm' target, you need to have the > "Authoring and Publishing" group and the "w3m" package installed via > yum. > Thanks! So when fedora-release-notes is installed, does that mean people can view them by going System -> Documentatoin -> [something]? If this is the case, will this be on the Fedora 9 beta desktop? Cheers, Murray. --------------------------------------------------------------------- pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxx> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
