[Fedora-packaging] Packages without a dist tag

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/17/2015 02:48 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 03:48 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>>
>>> here's the meeting logs where disttag was made mandatory:
>>>
>>> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-12
>>> -04/fpc.2014-12-04-17.02.log.html
>>>
>>> Looks like most of those packages could have it added but there are
>>> a
>>> few exceptions (the fedora-release-* packages were noted in that
>>> meeting).
>>>
>>> -Toshio
>>
>> Thanks for the link. I'm not sure I understood the reason for having
>> an exception for fedora-{release,repos}*. The log says:
>>
>> 17:41:58 <tibbs|w> There's no reason for them to do so, since their
>> version is tied to the distro version.
>>
>> Which is true, but why is that a reason to grant them an exception?
>> Would it cause any problems it they contained a distro tag as well?
>>
>
> Yes, because this is the package that provides the definition of the
> distro tag. It couldn't install itself.

Can't this be hard-coded into the package itself?

Ralf