Merging in CVS
John Dennis
jdennis at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 20:05:52 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:57 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 06/09/2005 03:49 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> > No, they must be distribution unique. Why? Each distribution has a
> > different buildroot, e.g. different libraries, header files, etc. The
> > same src rpm does not produce the same binary rpm, the labeling and
> > identification of the binary rpm is a product of the spec file.
>
> The NVR must be different between distribution releases. But I think
> that can be attained without different spec files. See
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag
Good point Chris, %{dist} does get you out of this mess. Just remember
its only available in extras using the extras build system, take it out
of that environment and you've got the aforementioned problem.
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John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
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