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It could maybe be removed after several releases, +</I>>>>><i> but not before. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I believe you're right at the moment, now that we're importing things, +</I>>>><i> but after the very first time, starts becoming nonsense since +</I>>>><i> i believe we're going to work on our packages distro per distro not taking +</I>>>><i> every time srpms from mandriva as we're doing now. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Well, it may be a naïve hope, but I thought I could maintain the same spec file +</I>>><i> for Mandriva and Mageia for my packages. It's not just a matter of importing +</I>>><i> SRPMS from Mandriva to Mageia. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Given the fact that rpm5 is drifting away from the usage of %mkrel for using %distepoch, +</I>><i> I truly doubt this will happen. +</I> +I think the mkrels will stay for a while tho' (for ease of backporting) +so I think we'll have some "breathing space" in this regard. I suspect +that once all the wrinkles are ironed out, that we'll also go down the +RPM5 route (which will hopefully be easier for us then), in which case +the distepoch will likely become used by us too. + +Hard to say exactly what'll happen in the future, but it's at least +semi-likely. + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited [<A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>] +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor [<A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>] + PulseAudio Hacker [<A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>] + Trac Hacker [<A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>] +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002196.html">[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002205.html">[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2203">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2203">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2203">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2203">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |