[CentOS-devel] dist tag in rebuild SRPM

On 07/15/2014 02:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 10:02 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Congrats on Centos 7, and thanks a million!
>>
>> This may have been answered before but I can't seem to discover...
>>
>> I did:
>>
>> yumdownloader --source sssd
>> rpmbuild --rebuild sssd-1.11.2-68.el7_0.5.src.rpm
>>
>> And the packages I got had a different "dist" tag than the installed
>> versions.
>>
>> Installed versions are ".el7_0" and the built ones were ".el7.centos".
>>
>> sssd-1.11.2-68.el7_0.5.x86_64                <== in repo
>> sssd-1.11.2-68.el7.centos.5.x86_64       <== rebuilt locally
>>
>> Is there a reason for this mismatch and is in intentional or an error?
>> It's a pain in the butt because I often want to replace existing package
>> version using 'rpm --replacepkgs --oldpackage' while testing fixes and
>> this makes it close to impossible due to huge dependency issues.
>>
>> (also, it seems like the default rebuild of the above package "forgets"
>> to generate one of the necessary packages: python-sssdconfig, but thats
>> a different issue).
>>
> You need to define your own dist variable for each rpm built, if you do
> not want the default.  You can do it via rpmbuild:
>
> rpmbuild --define "dist .el7_0" <other stuff>
>
> ...OR... you can do a default in your .rpmmacros
>
> The system default dist (as you found) is .el7.centos if it is not modified.
>
But why is the system default not the same as what the installed 
packages were built with? Surely that's a regression from any prior 
Centos platform.  Is there an "upstreamy" reason for this (like they use 
inconsistent dist tag or something?).

Thanks,
David