Re: Package Naming Guidlines

[Toshio <toshio tiki-lounge com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:17, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Note: If you are building packages for fedora.us, you should not
> > manually add a %{disttag} to the spec files. 
> 
> Actually there's a difference between adding a macro like %{disttag}
> which would be undefined by default and could be set like
> 
>   rpmbuild --rebuild --define "disttag .rh80" foo.src.rpm
> 
> and hard-coding a disttag in the "Release:" field.  ;o)

Roger that.  I'll ammend it to say:

Note: If you are building packages for fedora.us, you should not
hardcode a disttag onto the Release field of the spec file.

-Toshio
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