On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:56 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > While looking at bug 1044675 I noticed that redhat-release is unversioned > in fedora-release and versioned in generic-release. I would expect it > to be the same in both of these packages. I think it probably makes the > most sense to version it for anything that is still using that, but wanted > to check if other people had good reasons for doing it one way or the > other. I've already looked into this. The only reason I didn't fix it already is that generic-release's tarball is secret sauce, there's no instructions on generating it in the spec file. I asked spot and he sent me a short reply saying, basically, 'copy the stuff from the fedora-release tarball'. So I guess I'll hack something together if no-one else does. I don't think there's any good reason for the discrepancy. fedora-release was set to obsolete redhat-release when it was introduced, and given an un-versioned Provides: redhat-release . That was back in 2006. generic-release had the same thing done in 2008 - I don't know if that's when generic-release was invented, or if it was found later that it needed to obsolete and provide redhat-release. Different people did them, two years apart; one chose to version the provide, one didn't. I'm guessing each was simply following their usual procedure. The bug I was looking at was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040607 , where the redhat-release provide being versioned caused a problem (whereas in your case it was the other way around). I agree it makes sense for them to match, to provide maximum similarity of behaviour, but we shouldn't version fedora-release's as {version}-{release} if we make them versioned, it appears! Either both unversioned, or both versioned just {version}, I think. > P.S. To resolve the actual problem, I am going to change a reference > from redhat-release to system-release, which probably should have > happened a while ago. Who the hell knows? I've lost track of how many different provides: and little files in /etc we have to perform the same job (answering the question 'what is this here OS?') It seems to be getting a bit ludicrous. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
