Disttags are nice, save the disttags

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:32:04AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 02:51:36AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> > python on different Fedoras have different ABIs and different module
> > installation paths, so even if a python noarch module you have to
> > rebuild python modules from FC6 (2.4) to F7 (2.5).
> 
> Sure, but in my recalling this happens less often than changes in the
> C/C++ build chain, so it may be more worth not having disttag to limit
> unneeded updates.

It's about yearly or every other Fedora release. Or twice during the
RHEL release cycle. We do want to support upgrading from FC<N> to
FC<N+2> starting with N=5, so it is definitely within our range.

Otherwise the transition from FC6 to F7 would had cost *all* python
modules to be forked on the specfile level. There is no need to do so
by just using the disttag.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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