New package: tclhttpd

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 30 15:56:45 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 16:38 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:27 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:15:16 -0700, Wart wrote:
> > > 
> > > > jfontain at free.fr wrote:
> > > > >>... into fedora-extras.  Any willing souls want to give it a review?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > One obvious thing:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Release: 1%{?dist}
> > > > 
> > > > I gathered from a few other threads on this list that %{?dist} wasn't 
> > > > supposed to be added until the package gets checked into CVS?
> > > 
> > > Again, why? It doesn't matter. The '?' in %{?dist} makes it empty if a
> > > 'dist' macro is undefined. With current cvs-import.sh script, though,
> > > apparently you should not expect %{?dist} to do anything useful, i.e.
> > > your imported files would be tagged as release 1, without any dist
> > > tag being appended automatically.
> > 
> > If someone has built their SRPM in an environment in which dist is
> > defined, the SRPM that they import into CVS will have the expanded macro
> > in the release tag.
> 
> And what? It doesn't matter ...

That release tag is used to generate the initial cvs tag, which may then
be for the wrong branch (e.g. fc4 instead of devel). Not a disaster, but
untidy.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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