%{?dist}, recommended or optional?

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 15:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> (Btw, for distribution upgrades, which don't perform an online upgrade of
> Fedora Extras packages prior to first boot, using %{dist} is insufficent.
> [Same applies to CD based distribution upgrades. Any Fedora Extras update
> package for the older distribution version may be seen as newer than a CD
> snapshot copy of a Fedora Extras package for the newer distribution, e.g.
> 4.fc3 > 1.fc4, so while %{dist} is helpful for our current Fedora Extras
> online repository, it is not a silver bullet.])

Why not use fc3.4 and fc4.1 then? ;)

roozbeh