On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:54:10 +0200, Ralf wrote: > 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 tell you that a package is outdated. And still it would fail if RPM were changed [the way you describe] while %dist stayed the same. %dist doesn't reflect at all whether RPM changes its file format near the beginning of a Fedora devel cycle. > >> => 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. Doesn't help much. Packager still needs to bump all branches [correctly] to recover. > It's the cases when people add/remove %?dist, which are problematic. Going in circles won't be of any use in this thread. Using %dist adds complications, too. Or else packagers would not run into some of the pitfalls I've pointed out. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
