repotag in EPEL

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Apr 27 18:54:28 UTC 2007


On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:42:55AM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > >   denyhosts-2.6-4.el5.epel.noarch.rpm
> > el5.epel still seems a bit redundant. Why not just forget the repotag 
> > and set the dist tag to epel5?
> Other distros separate what is called the disttag from the repotag
> (different concepts, the first is which distro version the package is
> built for, the second is which repository the package belongs to), it
> would be nice to keep that in epel so that it is compatible with
> preexisting usage. 

So, really, we want %repotag to be ".el" and %dist to be "5"?

Alternately, the repotag should be _hard coded_ in the spec file. (For
better or worse.)


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