On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:12 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:26, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > Spot brought the 3jpp.fc6.1 format to the packaging group which was
> > > discussed and agreed as a possible temporary format. Unfortunately,
> > > 3jpp.fc6.1 doesn't work for interleaving with jpackage if jpp is
> > > removed. So we'll probably have to have another (hopefully short)
> > > discussion about using 3jpp.1.fc6 & 3.1.fc6.
> >
> > Why the %{_dist} is necessary here? Can't we just add the number?
> > I thought we would need the %{_dist} only if we needed to have the same
> > RPM built in two different distro releases and they were release
> > specific (depend on some shared library or something).
>
> Unfortunately it may be necessary for you folks, if we ever have to bump the
> package in an older release, without becoming NVR higher than the same
> package in a newer release. If 3jpp is used in both FC6 and F7, and we have
> to rebuild in FC6 for whatever localized reason, we have to be able to do it
> in a way that doesn't promote it to be NVR higher than the 3jpp in F7.
Well, it turns out I don't think this will be necessary:
I started writing this up late on Tuesday:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ExceptionJPackage
~spot
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