Merging in CVS

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 19:57:56 UTC 2005


On 06/09/2005 03:49 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> No, they must be distribution unique. Why? Each distribution has a
> different buildroot, e.g. different libraries, header files, etc. The
> same src rpm does not produce the same binary rpm, the labeling and
> identification of the binary rpm is a product of the spec file.

The NVR must be different between distribution releases.  But I think 
that can be attained without different spec files.  See 
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag




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