Michael Schwendt wrote:
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tell you that a package is outdated.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.
Right, the key being using %?dist is _rebuilding_.
%dist doesn't reflect at all whether RPM changes
its file format near the beginning of a Fedora devel cycle.
Right, but unlike hidden build dates etc. it is clearly _visible_.
=> 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.
Not true. He needs to rebuild rawhide, not all branches.
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.
Well, they are running into them, because Fedora's NVRs rules are not
strict enough.
Ralf
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