[Bug 524119] Review Request: nmon - Nigel's performance MONitor for Linux

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--- Comment #9 from Dylan Swift <dylan.swift at gmail.com>  2009-09-20 04:05:18 EDT ---
> > So just to clarify, what you're saying is that even if the f10 & f11 SRPMS are
> > identical, there still needs to be two seperate SRPMS, rather than one without
> > the %{?dist} tag?
> 
> Not exactly. The RPMs built on different distributions from the same SRPM will
> be different. But in the review it is generally enough that the package builds
> in the development tree (rawhide).

That still confuses me - why then have different SRPMS if they contain the same
course and SPEC files?

> > That now begs another question - do I need to change this 'review request'
> > submission from rawhide to Fedora 10, and then submit another for Fedora 11?
> 
> No. The %{?dist} tag is a SHOULD item, and comes from the fact that once the
> package has been approved and imported in Fedora CVS, you won't be able to
> build the package for e.g. Fedora 10 and Fedora 11, since the build system
> won't allow you to tag multiple spec files with the same version and release.

so does that mean it is only possible to add new packages to rawhide and not to
currently supported distributions (f10 & f11)

also surely it is the other way around, a single SPEC file (in a single SRPM)
for multiple distributions?

> > > Do you have redhat-rpm-config installed?  
> > 
> > I do now, thanks. That has sorted it out.  
> 
> Funny, it should have been part of the standard package set for some time now.. 

I had built a minimal F11 in a VM, and must have unchecked something I
shouldn't have (though surely redhat-rpm-config should still have been
immutable?). I think I will rebuild the VM using the defined minimum, and not
muck about with the kickstart. Then I shall use mock to test the build rather
than just the OS in the VM.

Thanks for your help so far.

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