repotag in EPEL

[Jarod Wilson]

Forewarning: I've not paid attention to the entire discussion, but...

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:04 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: 
>> Use a repotag for EPEL4 and EPEL5 like this: add a "%define repotag foo"
>> in the buildsys, where foo expands to ".epel4" in EPEL4 and ".epel5" on
>> EPEL5; the repotag macro doesn't get defined in Fedora builders and thus
>> nothing will change when building a package for Fedora, even if it has a
>> %{?repotag} in %{release}.
> 
> Just a tiny detail, picking a random EPEL package:
>   denyhosts-2.6-4.el5.noarch.rpm
> then it would/could become:
>   denyhosts-2.6-4.el5.epel5.noarch.rpm
> 
> which I think is redundant, repotag should expand to "epel" only for all
> versions, so we would have:
>   denyhosts-2.6-4.el5.epel.noarch.rpm

el5.epel still seems a bit redundant. Why not just forget the repotag 
and set the dist tag to epel5?

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Jarod Wilson
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