On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 07:39 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote: > 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? Yes, it has been and is. If you go to System -> Help you can see the Release Notes on the front page. If you use KDE it's also on the help menu. We've had this since... FC-6, I think. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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