On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul W. Frields
<stickster(a)gmail.com> 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