Broken upgrade paths discussion

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Thu Jun 29 05:35:27 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:36:47PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 18:28, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > If you build a package with a disttag outside of the buildsys or mock you
> > will have an empty tag  it will not be there.
> 
> *cough*
> 
> rpmbuild --rebuild --define="dist .fc6" foo.src.rpm
> 
> (;
> 

The point for %{?dist} was to still allow the package to build w/o
special handling on the user's side _and_ place it into a well known
upgrade path (below the one from the repo).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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