Request for a sponsor and a review of: pam_abl

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Wed Jul 13 16:04:07 UTC 2005


Jeff Pitman wrote :

> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 23:30, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > You are free to ignore such recommendations. I, for instance, would
> > not like to be forced to add %{?dist} for a noarch/data package,
> > which doesn't need a rebuild for the next distribution.
> 
> What about /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/foo in FC5 and 
> then /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/foo in FC6? 
> 
> Lots of noarchs need rebuild for next distro. Especially those that 
> involve ver-dependent directory structures.  

I think Micheal was referring to stuff such as game data files, which
weigh many megabytes and usually don't need to be rebuilt for the next
distribution. So adding %{?dist} to those does seems silly.

Matthias

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