Re: [webmin-devel] Port of webmin to Fedora Core 0.94

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

 From reading their site, it looks like Fedora is a beta/development 
version of the next freely available redhat release, so I think it 
makes sense to have webmin treat it as a redhat variant like versions 
7.3, 8 and 9.

However, since they don't seem to be planning to call the next 
official release 'redhat fedora 1.0'  rather than 'redhat 10', webmin 
should use that version number as well. Probably the best solution is 
webmin's internal name for Fedora to remain as 'redhat-linux', but for 
the version number to be 'fedora-1.0'.

So the os_list.txt entry would be like :

Redhat Linux		Fedora 1.0     redhat-linux		fedora-1.0     $etc_issue 
=~ /fedora\s*core.*\s0\.94\s/i || `cat  etc/redhat-release 2>&1` =~ 
/fedora\s*core.*\s0\.94\s/

And config files would be named like config-redhat-linux-fedora-1.0, 
and module.info os_support line entries (where needed) would be like 
redhat-linux/fedora-1.0 . I don't see any need to treat the current 
betas of fedora (like 0.94) any different from the actual 1.0 release, 
as hopefully they will be totally compatible.

Any chance you could modify your patch to use this naming scheme?

  - Jamie

Dan Tucny wrote:
> If this was to support a code named prerelease beta of Redhat Linux e.g.
> Severn, then having it as Redhat Linux Severn with a version of severn
> would be fine... 
> 
> However... Redhat Linux (the product) is no more... (The Redhat
> Enterprise Linux product does still exist)
> 
> What's actually happened is that what may have originally been planned
> to be Redhat Linux 10 has in fact become the starting point of the
> Fedora Project. Fedora Core 0.94 is the current beta/test 2, there will
> be a beta/test 3 coming out in the next couple of weeks followed by
> release 1 at the beginning of November... After this the cycle will
> start for release 2 etc. Lots could change between releases...
> 
> Check out http://fedora.redhat.com for more info...
> 
> I think it should be split out from Redhat, if for nothing else, to make
> it easier to cater for release differences in fedora core... However...
> I respect that webmin is your project, so I'll leave the decision in
> your hands :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan 
> 
> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 05:00, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps then it should be treated as a new version of Redhat.. In your 
>>patch, you named all the config files config-fedora-core, when they 
>>really should have been config-redhat-linux-fedora. The os_list.txt 
>>line would be more like :
>>
>>Redhat Linux		Fedora     redhat-linux		fedora     $etc_issue =~ 
>>/fedora\s*core.*\s0\.94\s/i || `cat /etc/redhat-release 2>&1` =~ 
>>/fedora\s*core.*\s0\.94\s/
>>
>>This way, in modules where Fedora doesn't differ from 'standard' 
>>Redhat at all, there is no need for a separate config file, or 
>>addition to the os_support= entry in module.info files.. and config 
>>files like config-*-linux will be used on Fedora as well.
>>
>>Of course, if it is radically different from the standard Redhat 
>>releases then this may not make sense. Is it?
>>
>>  - Jamie
>>
>>Dan Tucny wrote:
>>
>>>It was based virtually entirely on RH10... I was thinking about making
>>>webmin just treat Fedora as RH10, but decided against it in the
>>>interests of preparing for the possibility of future changes without
>>>impacting the existing RH code and 'doing a proper job' of the port
>>>etc...
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 04:41, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Your patch looks cool, but I think it would have made more sense to
>>>>have webmin treat Fedora as another Redhat version, or better still the
>>>>same as an existing version. Was your port based on one of the existing RH
>>>>releases, such as 9 or 10?
>>>>
>>>>- Jamie
>>>>
>>>>Dan Tucny <da...@tu...> wrote ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I've been doing a bit of work porting the 1.113 development release of
>>>>>webmin to Fedora Core 0.94, Test 2, Severn...
>>>>>
>>>>>It all appears to work so I've made a patch...
>>>>>
>>>>>The patch can be found on the webmin sourceforge site under patches...
>>>>>specifically...
>>>>>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816843&group_id=17457&atid=317457
>>>>>
>>>>>I hope it's useful...
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,