On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:48:11 +0300, Jussi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:28 +0200, Daniel wrote: > > > > > >> Release doesn't contain a %dist tag. > > > >> - %dist is missing in Release: in spec > > > >> > > > > > > > > Often on purpose. Not a bug. > > > > > > > Can you be more specific, please? What's exactly the purpose? > > > > That %dist isn't used. There are various reasons why somebody may decide > > against using %dist. One example are noarch data packages that want to > > utilise koji build inheritance. > > ... except that doesn't help anything. ?? Let me be more clear then. You don't need to drop %dist for koji build inheritance to work. It just looks much cleaner to inherit foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm for all newer targets -- than to inherit foo-1.0-1.fc9.noarch.rpm and have users scratch their heads (even if release notes mention that packages with old dist tags may be found in a new dist release). > %dist should be used always. No. Particulary for noarch data packages, using %dist bears an additional risk. Because it becomes possible to tag a package on multiple branches and break inheritance by building for more than the oldest branch. In other cases, for example, %dist suggests that a spec/src.rpm would be dist-independent and could simply be copied to multiple branches. That doesn't need to be true. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
