On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 10. July 2010 00.54.43 Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> So whatever the spec file has in the Release field should be
>> irrelevant. But no, packages are rejected if you add a %{dist} tag.
>>
>> So how is being cross-distro compatible hurting MeeGo's evolution in this
>> case?
>
> Well, remove the %{dist} tag because it's not cross-distro compatible in the
> first place. So that's a bad example.
>
> It's not used on Mandriva and will expand to nothing, as opposed to the
> required "mdv".
Right, but in this case Mandriva is the exception; openSUSE and Fedora
are fine with it.
And in MeeGo it should be irrelevant what I put in the Release field,
it could be "0", or "foobar"; OBS will replace it anyway.
So, again, what do we loose if the %{dist} tag is allowed in the Release field?
--
Felipe Contreras
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