On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> OK, I agree with this. I don't want to insult RPMForge, but I really
> don't think that an upgrade path between RHEL and Fedora is viable, or
> something that we should attempt to promote. I've been thinking about
> this, and it has two major downsides:
>
> 1. It implies we support it. We don't.
> 2. It adds an extra field to the Release to confuse people.
It would be insulting if you said we were morons for having it :) But as
Fedora Extras goal is to limit to Fedora packages only, it makes sense.
Although I do not agree that having it implies you support it per se. You
allow it if people want to go there. And people have successfully upgrade
from RH 7.3 and RH 9 to RHEL 3, likewise people are upgrading FC to RHEL 4
with only minor adaptations.
Also, with smart package managers (that can prioritize repositories) it
might become unnecessary in the future to have it.
If the disttag will only contain 'rh9', 'fc1' or 'el3' and be used for
conditionals, can we consider using %{dist} instead of %{disttag} ? This
would be compatible with our usage, is shorter and I don't see any
drawbacks.
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