On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:51 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
BTW, when we initially discussed the kmod standard there was also
(IIRC)
a strong resistance from multiple important and well known people at
redhat against overloading %{NAME} with the output of "uname -r". I
doubt that option changed. Spot? Jeremy? f13?
Yep. I'm still very strongly against overloading %{NAME}. We don't
permit any other package to do this for any reason, and I don't want to
start now. Name is not for versioning.
~spot
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