same package used in EL-4 and EL-5

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Jul 29 18:59:33 UTC 2008



On 29.07.2008 20:36, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 
>>     Since there is no 'compiling', Ville (the packager) decided to not
>> use %dist. As a consequence, in order to build the package in both EL-4
>> and El-5 there are two options
> Imo, the extra pain/work involved in maintaining/deploying this without
> using %dist simply isn't worth it.
> Add %{?dist} to Release tag and be done with it.

I tend to agree for this kind package. Copying it over makes only makes 
sense when it comes to big data packages, but for a small easy package 
like this the overhead is not worth the risk and trouble.

Cu
knurd




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