Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:17 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 01/05/2007 08:14 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:56 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   >> - of having to examine specs dist-tags
> > 
> > They shouldn't have passed review if they are hard coded.  If they did,
> > a bug needs to be opened to fix it anyway.
> 
> You're thinking of only extras here.  Many core packages used hardcoded 
> dist tags long before we had the ability to do them.  Additionally, 
> specs in extras could get approved without dist tags and then have them 
> hard coded in by someone who mightn't know better.

The core packages need to go through a review for the merge anyway.  And
the latter case is a bug :)

> >> - of a mass rebuild
> > 
> > Which is likely to get done anyway around Test2.  It's been done for the
> > past 2 releases.
> 
> ...because of significant changes to the toolchain, not because we like 
> to do them.  There's no guarantee we'll need one in any given release cycle.

Ok true.

josh