[Fedora-packaging] Repotag in EPEL
David Lutterkort
dlutter at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 23:05:09 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:12 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Repotag seems to encourage such
> repo mixing somewhat, which is why I'm slightly leaning against it.
OTOH, we'll never completely prevent people shooting themselves in the
foot; all we can do make that less painful.
> But if there is a "repotag", it needs to be placed in the release tag in a way
> that it doesn't affect version comparisons between package releases (within a
> repo). Just defining %{dist} eg. as .elX.epel wouldn't work as %{dist} is
> optional,
Could EPEL make it mandoatory for its packages ? It seems that expanding
%{dist} for this would be very low overhead and unintrusive for
packagers.
David
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