On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:47 AM Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]> wrote: > > While working on the Makefiles I've noticed that the tarball names are > different for Fedora vs CentOS/RHEL. > > Fedora uses an upstream based tarball version whereas CENTOS/RHEL use a > tarball version that is based off the RPM NVR. > > Simple question: Does Fedora *require* an upstream based tarball > version? It doesn't seem like one is necessary from the kernel.spec but > there might be other considerations to take into account.
Indeed it does. For fedora, the tarball is only upstream content, and the patches are broken out into a separate patch file. This is a part of the Fedora packaging guidelines, and the clear delineation is important. We also do not want the additional information in the tarball as we use the same one for multiple Fedora releases, which do not use the same pkgrelease, but do share the same tarball in lookaside. Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
