Re: [CentOS-devel] dist tag in rebuild SRPM

On 07/16/2014 04:41 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

upstream has, which can be any number of things. So that means every single package has to have its dist tag checked. This is nothing new, it has been around and the policy since the beginning of CentOS-4.

the change in centos-release to default to .elN.centos instead of .elN is "new", relatively speaking ( *). and makes life a bit awkward for those who want to recompile a src.rpm and end with .el7.centos instead of .el as release tag

* it appeared in C6, sometime last year. there was a mail thread on that