Opinions: Providing "buildsys-macros" in the installed system

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Mar 29 03:02:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:57:41PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> > How about making them be "fc7.local" or "fc7.$(hostname)"? I find it really
> > convenient to be able to distinguish between locally-built and official
> > packages.
> > I know I can do "rpm -q --qf '%{buildhost}\n'", so it's not that big of a
> > deal, but it's nice to have the information more visible.
> Keep in mind that you can always override these locally. :)

I do, and will. :)

I'm mostly thinking of it as a handy thing to have in bug reports.

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