Noob: Error tagging FC-5 branch

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Jun 21 16:00:43 UTC 2006


>>>>> "IP" == Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> writes:

IP> It looks like this may be caused by the fact that the FC-5 and
IP> devel branches have the same package version/release.  Is this
IP> guess correct?

Looks like it.  I checked your package out of CVS and it looks like
you're not using the dist tag.

IP> If so, is there a macro that I can add to the Release tag in the
IP> SPEC file which will automatically append something meaningful to
IP> the release?

That's the dist tag.  You should always use it unless you know what
you're doing.  Just append %{?dist} to the end of your Release:.

 - J<




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