6 May
2011
6 May
'11
8:25 p.m.
On 06/05/11 18:29, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/6/2011 12:15 PM, Thomas Bendler wrote:
The billions of people who use scripts which rely on the dist tag? But if you don't want to improve the distribution let it as it is.
Have dist tags ever been documented as having a meaning that you can rely on? If not, I guess those scripts would have, as they say, "undocumented behavior".
Yes, it is documented that %{dist} should only be used to define the distribution that a package was built against, and should only be used in the Release field.
As such, the %{dist} tag as used in the Release field will be considered by rpm (and thus yum) when doing NEVR determinations.
That is well documented and is unlikely to change.