On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:51 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:BTW, when we initially discussed the kmod standard there was also (IIRC) a strong resistance from multiple important and well known people at redhat against overloading %{NAME} with the output of "uname -r". I doubt that option changed. Spot? Jeremy? f13?Yep. I'm still very strongly against overloading %{NAME}. We don't permit any other package to do this for any reason, and I don't want to start now. Name is not for versioning.
The name is used for versioning in several other packages for similar reasons (to *sanely* allow more than one version of the package simultaneously installed and updated), for example:
[pmatilai@cs181077098 ~]$ repoquery 'openssl*' openssl-perl-0:0.9.8a-5.2.i386 openssl097a-0:0.9.7a-4.2.1.i386 openssl-0:0.9.8a-5.2.i686 openssl-devel-0:0.9.8a-5.2.i386 openssl-0:0.9.8a-5.2.i386 [pmatilai@cs181077098 ~]$ repoquery 'libpng*' libpng-devel-2:1.2.8-2.2.1.i386 libpng10-0:1.0.18-3.2.1.i386 libpng-2:1.2.8-2.2.1.i386 libpng10-devel-0:1.0.18-3.2.1.i386 - Panu - -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
