On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 01:31 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > That's a bit unrelated to this issue. The disttag is to indicate the > build environment and to make packages build out of the same specfile > on different build environments to align properly in rpm upgrade paths > (same specfile, different build environments: make build environments > of newer distros win). The build environment can make a _lot_ of difference. In the case of bridge-utils, for example, you get entirely different behaviour if sysfsutils happens to be installed when the package was built. Without sysfsutils you get a package which doesn't work on 2.4 kernels but which does work with 32-bit binaries on a 6-bit kernel. With sysfsutils you get a 32-bit package which doesn't work on 64-bit kernels. Personally, I think the use of autotools should be banned in RPM packaging. It adversely affects the reproducability. -- dwmw2
