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On Jul 30, 2006, at 5:23 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
Don't abuse disttags for that, that's what upsets Jeff (and he's right
about that).
Actually, using %{dist} to include gfortran (or not) isn't what upsets.
The feebleness of the bleary fog of multiple conflicting attempts to
overload substrings
in Release: with admonishments aand advocacy to encourage use of %
{dist} and other
signifiers when there are other and better ways.
One final hint:
We seem to agree that everything but %{dist} in EVR is identical.
Since %{dist} is the least significant part of EVR comparison, the use
during install is as a tie-breaker.
Which means that
%{?dist:Disttag: %{dist}}
syntax, (perhaps injected into all spec files *without change* by
overloading
%description as a macro rather than a section marker), and
some rather simple code in rpm to use RPMTAG_DISTTAG as
a tie-breaker if it exists, would seem to achieve the intended
result much more effectively than trying to convince everyone to
incorporate
Release: 1.2.3.4.5.foo.bar.%{dist}
as their packaging style.
Heck, you can even do it both ways ...
73 de Jeff
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