Hello
I need a piece of advice on a small problem regarding the package
called mysqltuner, which I maintain in EPEL.
Background info:
This package consists of a single perl script which at rpm build
time is copied from its source tarball to /bin. The program itself reads
some variables from mysql and makes recommendations for tuning the mysql
settings in order to optimize the performance.
Since there is no 'compiling', Ville (the packager) decided to not
use %dist. As a consequence, in order to build the package in both EL-4
and El-5 there are two options
- use different release tags (the build system prohibits using the same
tags ... or at least I was not able to figure out how to build in one
branch stuff tagged on another branch: when I tried to do "make tag" for
the first time in EL-4, using the same spec as the one from rawhide, I
was told that the tag 0.9.8-1 has already been applied (and it was, of
course, in rawhide) ; OTOH I could not build (of course) because the
files I have uploaded were not tagged
-manually copy from one branch to another one (to be performed by the
admins). Hopefully this will occur quite rarely, so there should not be
a great burden.
At
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452172 is the rationale
for not using %dist (which makes sense, as I have explained above).
Ville also took the time to explaine me how to inherit stuff from one
branch to another one, but the mechanism seems to be valid only for Fedora.
So: what do you think is the recommended way:
- build twice, with different release tags , once in EL-4 and once in
EL-5 (I see absolutely no gain in this route)
- switch to using %dist and go the usual way
- build in one branch (EL-5 ?) and rely on the admins to copy the
package to the other one
TIA
manuel