On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 19:59 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:35 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>> ------- Additional Comments From jko@xxxxxxxxxx 2006-06-15 02:45 EST -------
> >>> ------- Additional Comments From jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx 2006-06-11 11:04 EST -------
> >>> NEEDSWORK
> >>> - Brew doesn't support %{?dist} tag anymore, so this will not evaluate when built.
> >> Why? I thought, RH was going to use the *same* conventions as Fedora?
> >>
> >> Apparently not ...
> >
> > Brew never supported %{?dist} tag, and the guidelines say that Core
> > packages can't expect that tag to be there. HOWEVER: Just because they
> > can't use the actual dist tag, if they want to add any sort of suffix,
> > they have to use the dist tag syntax.
>
> This seems to be a quite sane policy to have IMHO. What can we do to
> enforce this at the brew level?
I think the long term plan is to implement support for the %{?dist}
macro set in brew. Jesse?
~spot
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