[CentOS-devel] rhn tools and subscription manager

[David Mansfield]

On 06/18/2014 11:30 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 03:56 PM, Florian La Roche wrote:
>> Hello Karanbir Singh,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:59:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Yup, its that question again : do we want to leave, but
>>> patch-to-non-functional the rhn and subscription-manager tools in the
>>> distro. I know its useful to some projects to leave in, but do they care ?
>>
>> Even epel-release depends on rhn files for CentOS7 at the moment:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093918
> what does the rhn/sources file contain ? can we mock/stub that from
> centos-release ? ( is there a need to.. )
>
>

There's also the issue of the rhn integration into libreport/abrt (RPM: 
libreport-plugin-rhtsupport).  Whatever solution goes here should 
probably be applied to that pkg as well - it's a very similar situation. 
Simply dropping it means modifying the dependencies in a bunch of 
packages which try to include it, whereas the option is modifying to 
remove branding - which seems useless because there is just no point.

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Thanks,
David Mansfield
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