"redhat" and "fedora" in package naming

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 11:59:36 UTC 2006


On Thursday 31 August 2006 04:57, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Actually, I think the point was if you want to create Dodo Linux 7 based
> on Fedora Core 6 it's easier to substitute the Dodo Linux id if the
> package/file providing it has a neutral name. No need to scan scripts and
> deps for fedora references - just replace the release file in the package
> with a new one.

Most of these specifically named packages do have a Provides: system-foo for 
generic deps, so that we don't have to change the deps between RHEL and FC (:

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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