On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Mike McLean <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Traylen wrote: >> >> Is this check useful? It requires one to create to src.rpms before they >> can >> be submitted to dist-centos4 and 5. I can't for instance just grab a >> src.rpm package >> from fc10 and submit it. > > Koji likes to know the NVR it is building before it starts building it. This > allows Koji to mark the build as in progress. It also allows Koji to detect > nvr conflicts early (rather than at the end of the build). > > If the resulting build does not match this NVR then that is pretty big > consistency problem > > I too have run into this quirk. It is not that difficult to remake the srpm > with the right dist tag before submitting.
Indeed if there is a reason which there clearly is then its fine. As you say a quick rpm -Uvh && rpmbuild -bs --define 'dist .el5' to the rescue. Steve > > -- > Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list > -- Steve Traylen -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
