Request for a sponsor and a review of: pam_abl

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Thu Jul 14 07:12:28 UTC 2005


On 07/13/2005 05:53 PM, 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 also think, that the dist tag should always be added. Yes, there are 
some packages, where you only install a script in a path that doesn't 
change (eg. /etc), but to be sure, it's better to write the tag... 
Especially, as Jeff mentions here, perl or python modules.

Best,
  Oliver




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