Extras Builds

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:28 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:13:09PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 06:53 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > Here's a prelim patch that handles both build and disttags. Feel free to
> > > slice-and-dice as desired.
> > 
> > spot cleaned it up a little bit (moved the common dir stuff to the top
> > of Makefile.common so that it would work :-) and I've now applied it.
> > Specifying TARGET= should still work if you want, but this can make the
> > default case simpler.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking a crack at this
> 
> Does this mean that maintainers can now remove any hard-coded %{dist} and
> %{fedora} macros they have in the spec files?

Yes. I'd even go so far to say that you must do this. And before anyone
flames me, I'm doing it right now (for my packages).

~spot
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