Re: doc question for FC1/FC2 users

["Chuck R. Anderson" <cra WPI EDU>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
> I've just updated the yum docs, and have a question about FC1 yum (probably
> FC2 also).  In the docs, we have an example yum.conf which contains the line:
> 
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> 
> Is this correct, or should it be instead:
> 
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> 
> Or will either one work?

FC3 also has the same thing.  The answer I got was that you should use
redhat-release, because that always works on any release. 
fedora-release Provides: redhat-release, so I'd imagine yum does
something similar to this:

>rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release
fedora-release-3-8