Dag Wieers wrote:
On the other hand the Distribution-header does not make up for unique filenames, which I think is in favor of mandatory disttags. (Although filenames could be renamed to reflect the disttag, without 'polluting' the release-tag).
Do you mean something like this:
%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{disttag}.%{arch}.rpm.. where %{disttag} is _not_ an overloaded part of the "Release:" but rather a distinct entity derived from build environment - a bit like %{arch} perhaps with a tag to hard wire it in the spec if required, say "DistTag: any" for agnostic (I'm creating a new RPM tag in this example rather than changing the semantics of "Distribution:").
This would relate well to my previous suggestion where %{disttag} would not be evaluated as part of the release on version comparisons but rather prior to the epoch: %{disttag}:%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} (hmm, maybe after the epoch would be better?).
Carwyn
