On 05/04/2011 10:45 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 05/04/2011 02:35 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
In such cases, would editing the SPEC file release line be the lesser of two evils?
maybe but it would convey the wrong message.
It depends on what message you want to send. Obviously Ned is confused by how it is done now, and it makes it hard for people to match upstream packages with CentOS packages.
Despite the technical reasons, if the message is to confuse those users, you are on the right track.
We have been doing this exactly the same for 8 years.
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel here.
It is very simple ...
1. If we do not change a package, it will have the exact same dist tag as upstream.
2. If we do change a package, then the dist tag will always be .el5.centos.
This is not confusing, and is exactly what we have been doing since we stood up CentOS.
What is confusing about this?