yRahul Sundaram (sundaram(a)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/00033... > > 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.

seth vidal (skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org) said: > > 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. > > Does it hardcode that filename to look for? It hardcodes /etc/system-release, actually.

> 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.

> (That being said, you could certainly do a trigger to do the sed > at the right point after the package gets installed.) I tried that and Plymouth still displays the old text when booting up as a live cd and only gets the new text, post installation. If you figure out a way to do it, let me know. I tried a few things and never managed to get it right.

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 21:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > That has never happened really. It's happened multiple times in recent history.

Rahul Sundaram (sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org) said: >> 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. Running 'sed' on distribution provided files seems like a bad way to go about it. What if fedora-release gets updated upstream? (That being said, you could certainly do a trigger to do the sed at the right point after the package gets installed.)