Re: [WBEL-devel] Newest rhn-applet and whitebox-release errata

Johnny Hughes said:
>> Just installed whitebox-release 3.0-5_i386.i386 and it's still missing
>> the /etc/redhat-release. Maybe you need one more final last spin? :)
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> 
> Besides changing redhat-release to whitebox-release in every spec file
> ... what is the work around for this when compiling SRPMS?

It really depends on what your source RPM is looking for.  In the example of rhn-applet, it looks for what package "provides" redhat-release, so just having whitebox-release provide it will work.  Some things look for the file /etc/redhat-release, which generally can be worked around by making it a link to /etc/whitebox-release.

The programs that have the most problem are things that actually read the contents of /etc/redhat-release.  And example would be webmin.  In that case it is best to get upstream to recognize Whitebox's string and treat it the same as RHEL is treated.

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William Hooper