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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:23:09 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
I'm still seriously confused what people are smoking. The only
thing
changing is the name of the distro, which isn't important for any
package dependencies at all in any way except the distro-related
packages like fedora-release, which third party packagers certainly
aren't going to be providing as add-ons.
*no* normal packages are changing versions from 9->1.0, and
dependencies/versioning have absolutely no reason to care about the
release version. it's user information only, not stuff software should
care about - if the software does, then the software is broken.
[...]
Packages depend on other packages, not the text in /etc/*-release.
Fix
your packages and move on to complain about real problems. ;-)
Well, so far it has been easier to simply analyze /etc/redhat-release
and add conditional code to spec files. Conditional code that toggles
platform-specific patches, build requirements, source code
configuration parameters, and things like that.
What you're asking for is that a packager puts much more work into
analyzing build requirements directly in order to determine the build
platform. Effectively that would duplicate the work of a software's
"configure" script. There must be a cheap way to determine the build
platform. /etc/redhat-release or /etc/fedora-release is one and
hopefully will stay one.
- --
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.
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