[Fedora-packaging] disttag
Carwyn Edwards
carwyn at carwyn.com
Fri Feb 25 00:53:13 UTC 2005
Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>In the event that a single spec file is used for multiple versions of
>Fedora Extras, it is feasible that two packages with identical
>"%{name}-%{version}-%{release}" values could exist.
>
This is going on a tanget I admit but .. looking forwards couldn't RPM
be taught to use a specific DistTag: tag for this. RPM version
comparisons could then be based on something like
%{disttag}:%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} (%{disttag} == 0 signifying a
dist agnostic package). Rpmbuild could even implicitly set this using a
disttag macro like the one you suggest.
To keep overloading the Release: tag with more implicit information
seems wrong.
Carwyn
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