Spec file macro tricks

[Warren Togami]

Nathan G. Grennan wrote:
> 
>   What is more inherently flawed is putting the distribution version in
> in the release in the first place. This wasn't my decision. In that case
> I am just following the fedora.us guidelines.

In theory I would agree with you, but in reality we had no better 
solution.  We simply cannot have a situation with two binary packages 
with the exact same filename but compiled for different distributions 
(without resorting to epoch. =)

Even if an automated package tool is bound to a specific repository, it 
would have no way of comparing EVR and doing an upgrade to the new 
distribution's package.

We *need* a sane way of doing distrel tags within the package name, or 
add another field to the RPM database... which would introduce even more 
legacy problems.

Warren