[WBEL-devel] rhn-applet Stuck?

[Johnny Hughes]

I agree that we need a redhat-release that is owned by a package ...
otherwise we will need to rewrite many things.


On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:54, William Hooper wrote:
> Kevin Ediger  said:
> >
> > Here are the patches needed to fix rhn-applet and update to the latest
> > Fedora version rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.
> 
> After taking another look at my Fedora machine, a "cleaner" solution might
> be to just have whitebox-release provide "redhat-release".  For example:
> 
> [whooper@butters whooper]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
> [whooper@butters whooper]$ rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release
> fedora-release-1-3
> [whooper@butters whooper]$
> 
> This is most likely why it slipped through to begin with, because the
> check for redhat-release succeeds with Fedora Core.