Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507915 --- Comment #10 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola@xxxxxx> 2009-06-25 15:08:50 EDT --- (In reply to comment #9) > I disaggree with you in this point. Even if alle the releases contains the same > content, it may be helpful to use the %{dist} tag. For example for F-12 the > usage of LZMA to compress the rpm data is planed. So on the dist tag, you can > see, if you can use a package for F-12 or not without a try to install it. Not using the %dist tag doesn't mean the F12 package won't be LZMA compressed. What matters is when one updates, say from F11 to F12 the packages that don't have the %dist tag won't be updated (until a new version is available in the updates repo) if the version and release in both distros is the same: say, foo-1-1 in F11 and foo-1-1 in F12. When the dist tag is used the F12 package foo-1-1.fc12 will be "newer" than foo-1-1.fc11 and thus will replace the old one. In case the package is (close to) identical in both distros [no binaries compiled], not using the dist tag saves some download and update time. Of course, generally speaking something is compiled in every package and the %dist tag should be used, so from a stylistic point of view using it could be advised in these cases too. However, if the package is as big as the SRPM (11 MB) I wouldn't put in a %dist tag since nothing is gained from it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review