On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
But check out the remaining 2%: It's firmware and data files that should not carry a disttag (and they should not even be rebuilt at all).
Not all of those packages are things that shouldn't have disttags. Some packagers choose not to use %{?dist} for their own reasons, and I respect that.
If (and this is still a big if) we want to implement repotags for
EPEL,
I think the best way is to take the packager out of the loop
entirely,
and append .epel to the release at the buildsystem layer.
Same goes for the disttag itself and when I brought up this request some years ago to have an appendable "releasesuffix" macro for rpm the god of rpm loudly laughed and looked away ;)
Not at the rpm layer, no, at the buildsystem layer. This is a notable difference.
~spot