[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 192912] Review Request: paps

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jun 16 12:44:24 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:35 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > ------- Additional Comments From jko at redhat.com  2006-06-15 02:45 EST -------
> > ------- Additional Comments From jkeating at redhat.com  2006-06-11 11:04 EST -------
> > NEEDSWORK
> > - Brew doesn't support %{?dist} tag anymore, so this will not evaluate when built.
> Why? I thought, RH was going to use the *same* conventions as Fedora?
> 
> Apparently not ...

Brew never supported %{?dist} tag, and the guidelines say that Core
packages can't expect that tag to be there. HOWEVER: Just because they
can't use the actual dist tag, if they want to add any sort of suffix,
they have to use the dist tag syntax.

~spot
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