[Fedora-packaging] Packages without a dist tag

[Kamil Paral]

> > 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 you please explain that a bit more? Do you mean that the %{dist} macro is not available before fedora-release is installed, and therefore we couldn't _build_ the package? Because I don't understand why the package should be not installable if it had .fcXX suffix.

In any case, if there was just a very small set of packages which didn't use dist tag, but the information could be deduced some other way (from the version field), I think that would still work for us in Taskotron, we would hardcode the exceptions.