On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> But check out the remaining 2%: It's firmware and data files that
> should not carry a disttag (and they should not even be rebuilt at
> all).
Not all of those packages are things that shouldn't have disttags. Some
packagers choose not to use %{?dist} for their own reasons, and I
respect that.
> > If (and this is still a big if) we want to implement repotags for
> EPEL,
> > I think the best way is to take the packager out of the loop
> entirely,
> > and append .epel to the release at the buildsystem layer.
>
> Same goes for the disttag itself and when I brought up this request
> some years ago to have an appendable "releasesuffix" macro for rpm the
> god of rpm loudly laughed and looked away ;)
Not at the rpm layer, no, at the buildsystem layer. This is a notable
difference.
~spot
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