Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 05:52 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:45 +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
> > Christian Iseli wrote:
> > > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:59:28 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >> Me currently votes for fp for "Fedora Packages" (and matches Fedora 
> > >> Project at the same time, too), because that's what it is afaics.
> > > 
> > > How about we just stay with fc7, and think of it as
> > > Fedora, collection 7 ?
> > 
> > Definitely the simplest solution so far :)
> > This would save a lot of hassle.
> 
> Why?  Unless you've hard coded the dist tag in the spec file (which you
> shouldn't be doing), if the dist tag changes on the buildsys you don't
> even have to make any changes.  A rebuild will just add the new dist
> tag.
> 
> What hassle am I missing?
The hassle,
- this discussion is causing ;)
- of having to examine specs dist-tags
- of having to adapt other SW (e.g. scripts in buildsystems, 
  build scripts, html scripts on web sites etc.)
- of a mass rebuild
- of badly chosen dist-tags, such as .f7

Ralf