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