Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:00:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > If you're really that worried about a package only building on a certain
> > dist, put a (pseudocode)  'if (%{dist} != fc42 and %{dist} != "") then
> > exit 1'  check in %prep or something. That will ACTUALLY kill the build
> > on the "wrong dist".
> >
> > IMHO, %{?dist} should be a MUST unless there's a damn good reason for
> > it, like the "giant huge mirror killing binary blob of game data" case.
> 
> It is worth enough that %dist finds its way into the binary %changelog or
> doesn't. Either case is very bad IMO when %dist is used.

s/worth/worse/
 
> Don't take away the packager's freedom with lousy policies.