On Tue, 18 May 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Oh, that's what you want disttags for? Sorry, but it isn't going to
> work.
I disagree, it certainly can work, if used properly. This is exactly
what many 3rd party repos are doing *right now*.
> Consider that FC3 shipped with say foo-1.2-7.fc3. FC4 will probably
> undergo a few mass rebuilds, which will make foo-1.2-9.fc4 the package
> in FC4. While FC5 is under development, a security problem is found
> in foo, and the patch is back-ported into FC3 and FC4.
>
> I suppose this is going to result in foo-1.2-7.fc3.1, foo-1.2-9.fc4.1
> and foo-1.2-10.fc5 (rawhide), all of them containing the fix. You
> can't just use the version tag to identify packages containing the
> fix.
I think you miss the point. The point is to be able to release the
"fixed" version as:
foo-1.2-10.%{dist_tag}
Isn't that *much* cleaner/simpler than your 7.fc3, 9.fc4, 10.fc5 example?
-- Rex
