Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> --- Michael Tiemann <tiemann at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's 7 years, not 5.
> 
> do you believe this is relevant to the current
> discussions are not?

It is. If you don't think about it now, it may be more trouble later.

I'm willing to commit a big chunk of my packages if SPEC files can be used 
for multiple distributions/releases and there's infrastructure to avoid 
having to fork SPEC files if unnecessary. (I don't care about a specific 
implementation and am open to discuss alternatives)

A big part of the packages don't require a mandatory fork or don't require 
dist-specific macros. And an even bigger part only has a few macros.

Fedora Extras has to decide whether it will allow those extra macros to 
make it easier to manage SPEC files or if they fork for each new Fedora 
release. There are a few drawbacks, but imnsho there are more advantages.
(less maintenance required, more communities/resources involved, RHEL 
users don't have to fork Fedora stuff and vice versa, ...)

Only fork SPEC files when the complexity of maintaining them becomes 
harder than the complexity of keeping things synchronised.

My estimate is that for 70% of the cases 1 SPEC file can rule them all.

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