[Fedora-haskell-list] Haskell packaging for multiple Fedora releases?

Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 08:53:24 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Rajesh Krishnan <fedora at krishnan.cc> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have these quick questions about submitting RPMs for different Fedora
> releases and a quick scan thru' the Fedora packaging guidelines did not point
> me in the right direction. Here it goes:
>
> If I want to submit a number of packages that would build exactly the same way
> (that is, identical SRPMs)  on Fedora8, Fedora9 and RawHide then do I need to
> submit 3 different Review Requests on bugzilla.redhat.com?
>
> And what if the source RPMs that I have created are different for Fedora 8,
> Fedora 9 and Rawhide?  Then would that call for creating 3 different Review
> Requests on Bugzilla?
>
> Thanks in advance.

If you use cabal-rpm, then it's really just a matter of changing the
GHC version and the dist number in the spec file.

The guidelines are designed around using Cabal as well, so again, the
spec file should be as generic as possible.

-yaakov




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