Request for a sponsor and a review of: pam_abl

Jeff Pitman symbiont at berlios.de
Wed Jul 13 16:34:37 UTC 2005


On Thursday 14 July 2005 00:04, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Jeff Pitman wrote :
> > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 23:30, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > You are free to ignore such recommendations. I, for instance,
> > > would not like to be forced to add %{?dist} for a noarch/data
> > > package, which doesn't need a rebuild for the next distribution.
> >
> > What about /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/foo in FC5 and
> > then /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/foo in FC6?
> >
> > Lots of noarchs need rebuild for next distro. Especially those that
> > involve ver-dependent directory structures.
>
> I think Micheal was referring to stuff such as game data files, which
> weigh many megabytes and usually don't need to be rebuilt for the
> next distribution. So adding %{?dist} to those does seems silly.

Ahh, ok.  I just didn't want to see a noarch means no %{?dist} to come 
out of the discussion.  Because lots of noarch do need them.

-- 
-jeff




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