One build for multiple platforms?

[Steve Traylen]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Mike McLean <mikem at redhat.com> wrote:
> Steve Traylen wrote:
>>
>> Is this check useful? It requires one to create to src.rpms before they
>> can
>> be submitted to dist-centos4 and 5. I can't for instance just grab a
>> src.rpm package
>> from fc10 and submit it.
>
> Koji likes to know the NVR it is building before it starts building it. This
> allows Koji to mark the build as in progress. It also allows Koji to detect
> nvr conflicts early (rather than at the end of the build).
>
> If the resulting build does not match this NVR then that is pretty big
> consistency problem
>
> I too have run into this quirk. It is not that difficult to remake the srpm
> with the right dist tag before submitting.

Indeed if there is a reason which there clearly is then its fine. As
you say a quick
rpm -Uvh  && rpmbuild -bs --define 'dist .el5' to the rescue.

Steve

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