Disttags for FL (was: Upgrade path consistency among all Fedora Projects)
Jeff Sheltren
sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Sat Jul 1 13:50:37 UTC 2006
On Jul 1, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> At this time Fedora Legacy doesn't have an interest in introducing
> the %{?dist} tag to packages that didn't already have it. This
> means no RHL
> packages. In fact, RHL is hopefully going to be phased out of
> Legacy support
> in about 6 months.
>
> Our current build system does not support dist tags, however when
> we move to
> the Fedora infrastructure instead of our own we will gain that
> ability, and
> we will use the same dist tag that was appropriate for said
> releases during
> the time they were active. FC3 .fc3, FC4 .fc4, etc...
>
Jesse, yes our system does support %dist tags. We could also easily
use them for RHL releases, but I agree that it's not really worth it
since we are planning to stop supporting those very soon.
-Jeff
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