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 Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dgregor@xxxxxxxxxx --- Comment #17 from Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-07-01 11:37:51 EDT --- (In reply to comment #10) > (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. I'm not following the logic here. With the dist tag: If you have foo-1-1.fc11 in F11 and don't rebuild it, then you will have foo-1-1.f11 in F12. If you rebuild it, then you'll have foo-1-1.f12 in F12. Without the dist tag: If you have foo-1-1 in F11 and don't rebuild it, then you will have foo-1-1 in F12. If you rebuild it, then you'll have foo-1-2 or foo-1-1.1 in F12, depending on your numbering preference. The dist tag doesn't cause any additional builds and only helps when you need to rebuild. > 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. It sounds like there is some assumption that the dist tag ties a particular build to a release. That's not the case. There are plenty of .fc9 package in F10, for example. > > 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