dist tags, build targets, and sparcs!

John Dennis jdennis at redhat.com
Mon May 9 19:55:17 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:39 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 1. dist tags:
> Dist tags are now very very easy. So easy, even I can use it properly.
> Here is how you use it.

> Thats all. The buildsystem defines %{dist} (and helper variables such as
> %{fedora}) based on the cvs branch that you're sitting in. The same
> thing is true for make build.
> 
> No more wacky macros. No more shell scripts. No more hardcoding values
> into spec files.

Excellent! Kudos to all! 

Now, any chance we can get this into the Red Hat build system?
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>




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