On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
But check out the remaining 2%: It's firmware and data files
that
should not carry a disttag (and they should not even be rebuilt at
all).
Not all of those packages are things that shouldn't have disttags. Some
packagers choose not to use %{?dist} for their own reasons, and I
respect that.
> If (and this is still a big if) we want to implement repotags
for
EPEL,
> I think the best way is to take the packager out of the loop
entirely,
> and append .epel to the release at the buildsystem layer.
Same goes for the disttag itself and when I brought up this request
some years ago to have an appendable "releasesuffix" macro for rpm the
god of rpm loudly laughed and looked away ;)
Not at the rpm layer, no, at the buildsystem layer. This is a notable
difference.
~spot