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Re: doc question for FC1/FC2 users

Subject: Re: doc question for FC1/FC2 users
From: "Chuck R. Anderson"
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:26:57 -0400
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
> I've just updated the yum docs, and have a question about FC1 yum (probably
> FC2 also).  In the docs, we have an example yum.conf which contains the line:
> 
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> 
> Is this correct, or should it be instead:
> 
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> 
> Or will either one work?

FC3 also has the same thing.  The answer I got was that you should use
redhat-release, because that always works on any release. 
fedora-release Provides: redhat-release, so I'd imagine yum does
something similar to this:

>rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release
fedora-release-3-8

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