On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:38:25 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi, > > there are more and more discussions about packaging issues in EPEL > (repotag, fedora-usermgmt) where people request EPEL-specific packaging > rules that are different from the ones used in Fedora, that got and get > defined by the Packaging Committee. It has not been decided on fedora-usermgmt before. Neither by FESCO, nor by the Packaging Committee. It remains an optional tool that is not mentioned in the guidelines. It has not been decided on "a repotag" before. Using %dist is still optional. And that is good. If I understand the request correctly, there is the desire to make a repotag mandatory. When doing that, it would conflict with an optional %dist tag. Even longer file names. Even more information that influences RPM version comparison. Where a forward-looking requirement of "foo > 1.0-3" used to be accurate enough, packagers already need to be more careful and consider the dist tag, because "foo-1.0-3.fc7" is > 1.0-3 only because of the dist tag. Another macro that is added to the package %release value won't make it better. By looking at only a file name you cannot tell anyway who built the package. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
