On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Brew never supported %{?dist} tag,
... never say "never" ... ;)
Indeed. Brew supported %{?dist} for about 4 hours, long enough for us
to realize it broke some things in our infrastructure so it got punted
till later.
> and the guidelines say that Core
> packages can't expect that tag to be there.
Well, exactly this is one of the points I consider to be a "must-be
discussed soon".
At least I consider consistent and clear conventions on "NEVR"'s,
which
%dist is part of, to be a minimum requirement for closer and better
Core<->Extra (+external repos) interaction.
To me, the current situation leaves much to be desired.
The guidelines also mention that use of %{?dist} is optional and not
necessary in _any_ package. As long as there is a clear upgrade path
from FE4 -> FE5 -> devel than that is acceptable.
As spot states though, if a new core package is going to use some sort
of dist like part of the NEVR, it has to follow what %{?dist} would
evaluate to, '.fc6' '.fc5' etc... This is one of the things I look at
when reviewing a new Core package.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora