[CentOS-devel] brand hunting utility

Thu Jun 5 12:25:45 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 06/05/2014 01:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:42:38PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> traditionally, .spec files sometimes mentioned things like 'BlahBlah
>> tool for Red Hat Enterprise Linux' , and we need to change those to say
>> 'for CentOS Linux'
>> typically, found in the %description section, but could be in other places.
> 
> If you find these, and they're also that way in Fedora, could you please
> file bugs for them? 

sure

>> Also, stuff like httpd has Vendor setup in the .spec file, we need to
>> change that to CentOS as well ( but I am struggling to think of a second
>> example off the top of my head, so might just be a case of do it
>> manually once, and forget about it ).
> 
> Packages in Fedora definitely should not have Vendor set to anything, so if
> you find any, yeah, bugs. :)
> 

this is actually the Vendor string that goes into httpd's Version
string. We like to have it say httpd 2.4.xxx (CentOS) instead of (Red Hat)



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