Re: Plymouth and re-branding

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> yRahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said: 
> > During bootup, plymouth shows "Fedora 10" at the end of the progress bar  
> > half way through and replacing it, requires replacing fedora-release and  
> > rebuilding the initrd which doesn't work very well in a live cd. Details 
> > at
> >
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-spins/2008-December/000336.html
> >
> > It would be helpful for remixes if we could avoid branding. Do I file a  
> > bug report on that?
>
> It pulls the information from /etc/fedora-release - there's nothing to
> do in plymouth itself. If your /etc/fedora-release comes from a correctly
> rebranded package, the right thing should happen.

Well, here is the thing. I run sed on /etc/fedora-release, I get a 
rebranded distro everywhere except for plymouth which already has picked 
up the name and won't let it go. Now I did replace fedora-release with 
my own foo-release but then I realized, I have to maintain my own 
repository now as well inorder to not break the upgrade path. I would 
like to avoid doing that by just not having Plymouth display that text 
at all.

Rahul