On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: > - It introduces a spec incompatibility, which can be taken care of in > Fedora land but not so easy for EPEL side of things. Dunno if our > buildsys ever does anything with the rpmbuild of the host system > (I seem to recall it doing some part there but could easily be wrong), > IF so this is pretty much a no-go. I suppose this has been asked/suggested before, but how about changing rpm so that its spec file parser doesn't error out but rather issues a big warning when it sees a tag like structure it doesn't understand, and ignores it? And add a command line option like --lenient to rpmbuild that enables this behavior (default would be "strict" like currently). After this option has trickled to all supported environments, every use of a newly added tag would no longer render the package unbuildable with earlier rpmbuild versions. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
