Michael Schwendt wrote:
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.
Of cause it would help. A package's release tag would very verbosely
tell you that a package is outdated.
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.
Yes, that's the status quo, probably because certain Fedora and Red Hat
key people refuse to keep things simple and straight, but prefer to what
I consider to be "outsmarting themselves" by making the corner cases the
norm.
IMO, that's simply silly of these people.
=> 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.
Quite easy to overcome: always use %?dist.
It's the cases when people add/remove %?dist, which are problematic.
Ralf
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