On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:59:21 +0530, Sawrub wrote:
[F-14 rpms with old dist tags .fc13, .fc12]
> Or may be the maintainer is no longer interested in re-building.
True. Packages, which haven't been "touched" for many months, may be an
indication that their maintainer is missing. Even more so, if there are
open bugs and a newer upstream release.
> >> Since as i have read that
> >> installing packages like this ['OS version xx' packages under 'OS
> >> version yy' ] should not be encouraged.
> > Where?
> >
> It was in my early days that i got to know this probably in some list
> when i was trying to learn using yum.
Could be misinformation. ;) The .fcXX dist tag in the package release
value has never been mandatory. Packagers can still choose to not add
the corresponding %{?dist} macro to an RPM package spec file. Using
%{?dist} is not 100% safe. It is helpful with some aspects of package
maintenance, but also adds some pitfalls.
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