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Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor(a)redhat.com> changed:
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--- Comment #17 from Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor(a)redhat.com> 2009-07-01 11:37:51 EDT
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(In reply to comment #10)
(In reply to comment #9)
> I disaggree with you in this point. Even if alle the releases contains the same
> content, it may be helpful to use the %{dist} tag. For example for F-12 the
> usage of LZMA to compress the rpm data is planed. So on the dist tag, you can
> see, if you can use a package for F-12 or not without a try to install it.
Not using the %dist tag doesn't mean the F12 package won't be LZMA compressed.
What matters is when one updates, say from F11 to F12 the packages that don't
have the %dist tag won't be updated (until a new version is available in the
updates repo) if the version and release in both distros is the same: say,
foo-1-1 in F11 and foo-1-1 in F12.
I'm not following the logic here.
With the dist tag: If you have foo-1-1.fc11 in F11 and don't rebuild it, then
you will have foo-1-1.f11 in F12. If you rebuild it, then you'll have
foo-1-1.f12 in F12.
Without the dist tag: If you have foo-1-1 in F11 and don't rebuild it, then you
will have foo-1-1 in F12. If you rebuild it, then you'll have foo-1-2 or
foo-1-1.1 in F12, depending on your numbering preference.
The dist tag doesn't cause any additional builds and only helps when you need
to rebuild.
When the dist tag is used the F12 package foo-1-1.fc12 will be
"newer" than
foo-1-1.fc11 and thus will replace the old one.
In case the package is (close to) identical in both distros [no binaries
compiled], not using the dist tag saves some download and update time.
It sounds like there is some assumption that the dist tag ties a particular
build to a release. That's not the case. There are plenty of .fc9 package in
F10, for example.
Of course, generally speaking something is compiled in every package and the
%dist tag should be used, so from a stylistic point of view using it could be
advised in these cases too. However, if the package is as big as the SRPM (11
MB) I wouldn't put in a %dist tag since nothing is gained from it.
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