On Wednesday 03 September 2003 15:11, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> John Allen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 14:54, Radek Vybiral wrote:
> >>You have missed the point, IMHO G�tz wants sollution without
> >>{awk|sed|grep} where is possible to build all .rpm files on the
> >>various MDK releases from the same .spec file.
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> > But he was using awk in the original;
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> And that's what you said was ugly (without a qualification of what
> specifically it was that was ugly, we assumed you meant using a
> conditional based on the distro, which is unavoidable).
>What is ugly is having to test for a specific version of the distro rather than determining the distros features. Maybe we need an /etc/features indicating what features are supported. > > the only difference here is that 9.2.1 > > will match 9.2. > > But who guarantees that 9.2.1 will be identical enough to 9.2 that they > can be treated identically? And if they can, what is the use of using > the point release at all then? > Well I guess all it tells you is that there has been some reasonable level of testing that a set of patches/updates work well together, and that they don't break any compatibility with the 9.2 release. eg. output formats for commands have not changed etc.. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
