"10" < "9": Get rid of string comparisons in time for F-10?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jul 6 14:29:35 UTC 2008
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:02:52 +0200
Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun at n-dimensional.de> wrote:
> A short reminder what this is about:
>
> %if "%{?fedora}" > "7"
> <something which should work in F-8, F-9, F-10, F-11, etc.>
> %endif
>
> This fails to work as intended in rawhide/devel/F10 and later and
> should be fixed.
>
> Summary for 2008-07-06
> ----------------------
> devel: 58 string comparisons in 32 spec files
> F-9: 78 string comparisons in 46 spec files
> F-8: 109 string comparisons in 56 spec files
> F-7: 118 string comparisons in 62 spec files
>
> The packages in rawhide will definitely be affected by this, might
> already be breaking stuff, and really should be fixed:
>
> http://ndim.fedorapeople.org/stuff/rpm/string-comp-devel.log
>
> Graphing the numbers over time shows a definite decrease in
> devel/rawhide/F10, but nothing approaching zero for a long time:
>
> http://ndim.fedorapeople.org/stuff/rpm/
>
Some false positives here:
lat
lat.spec:14:%if "%{?fedora}" == "5"
lat.spec:42:%if "%{?fedora}" == "5"
lat.spec:111:%if "%{?fedora}" == "5"
These are not a problem.
Paul.
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