Avoiding unnecessary package updates (was: rpms/R/FC-4 R.spec,1.11,1.12)

[Ville Skyttä]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:26 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:

> Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/R/FC-4
> In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv10763/FC-4
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	R.spec 
> Log Message:
> 
> fix BR: XFree86-devel for FC-5

Would it be possible to avoid doing gratuitous builds/updates like this
for older distro versions?

In this case, it looks like the only changes to the R package in FC-3
and FC-4 was a bump of the release tag (to keep it in sync with FC-5
even though the specfile contents are not in sync otherwise).  But the
packages were rebuilt for the older distros too -> users of those will
in this case download a 18+ MB update which doesn't contain any changes
apart from the release tag...