On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:50 +0200, Ralf wrote: > > 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 > > IFF "current rpm" is sufficiently compatible to the antique version of > rpm a package has been built on. > > If this doesn't apply you don't get anywhere. Not _with_ %dist either. > > 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. > To me, this is not a risk, but a valuable feature. The packager is free to decide whether and when to do this either with or without %dist. > => I agree with Jussi. Allowing people not to use %dist is not helpful. > It's a booby trap which certainly will hit some day. %dist is a trap itself - packagers run into it regularly, e.g. when adding Obsoletes and versioned dependencies, when doing trial-and-error fixing of old branches (without paying attention to the recommendations in the guidelines), when committing and tagging after a server-side update of the "branches" file. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
