NVR bugs in rawhide
Jussi Lehtola
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 14 12:48:11 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:28 +0200, Daniel wrote:
>
> > >> Release doesn't contain a %dist tag.
> > >> - %dist is missing in Release: in spec
> > >>
> > >
> > > Often on purpose. Not a bug.
> > >
> > Can you be more specific, please? What's exactly the purpose?
>
> That %dist isn't used. There are various reasons why somebody may decide
> against using %dist. One example are noarch data packages that want to
> utilise koji build inheritance.
... except that doesn't help anything. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507915
%dist should be used always.
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Jussi Lehtola
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