What to do with release number on new EL-5 branch

Richard Fearn richardfearn at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 11:47:11 UTC 2009


Hi,

>> > There is nothing wrong with starting at 9-5.
>>
>> Using the disttag can make it clearer that a package comes from epel as
>> opposed to someone installing the Fedora package onto an EL-5 system and
>> expecting it to work.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag
>> -Toshio
>
> Er, I am not saying "don't use dist", just that starting at 5%{?dist} instead
> of 1%{?dist} is completely fine.

Thanks for the advice; I'll leave it as 9-5%{?dist}.

(Sorry for any confusion - I wasn't going to remove %{?dist}.)

Rich




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