[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Sun Jan 16 09:15:27 CET 2011

Op zondag 16 januari 2011 01:19:29 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 00:07:56, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> > Hi all!
+> > 
+> > Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to
+> > 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all?
+> > 
+> > Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any
+> > "%if %mdkversion < x" to fail to build.
+> > 
+> > I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that
+> > most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including
+> > those provided by any 3rd party packagers.
+> > 
+> > Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very
+> > little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases,
+> > but not before.
+> > 
+> > However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not
+> > have these macros at all.
+> > 
+> > What do other people think?
+> 
+> If not having those macros means we can't compile mdv SRPMS on mageia, then
+> I'd prefer we keep it.
+> 
+> Regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde
+
+
+i would prefer to have some kind of %{_vendor}%{_vendor_release} type of 
+thing, we could easily have mandriva and mageia use the same tags for this.
+
+after all, there will be a time where we will need similar compatibility. and 
+it's be easier for later to possibly have similar .spec files with other 
+vendors: PLF?  OpenSuse, Fedora, ...
+