[Fedora-packaging] Packages without a dist tag

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:48:10AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> To clarify what we're trying to do in Taskotron: We work with NVRs
> quite a lot. Sometimes we need to know "which Fedora/EPEL version was
> this NVR built for?". We figured we could parse the dist tag, which
> is very efficient, but its presence needs to be guaranteed (if we
> don't want to maintain a list of hardcoded exceptions and use some
> different logic for those).

Sorry if this is a silly question, but for your use case, does it
matter than the disttag says what it was built against, not what
release it was shipped with? Because the dist tag only tells you the
former, since we don't always rebuild everything.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader