make tag and %{?dist}

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed May 4 01:57:11 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> According to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag one can append
> %{?dist} to the Release field in the spec file and it will be expanded
> to the correct value when the package is built by the build system.
> However, unless the spec file contains something like:
> %define dist .fc4

Presumably, the build system defines this so it doesn't have to be in the
spec files.

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