[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Sun Jan 16 11:26:54 CET 2011

In data domenica 16 gennaio 2011 00:07:56, Anssi Hannula ha scritto:
+> 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.
+I believe you're right at the moment, now that we're importing things, 
+but after the very first time, starts becoming nonsense since
+i believe we're going to work on our packages distro per distro not taking
+every time srpms from mandriva as we're doing now.
+ 
+> However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not
+> have these macros at all.
+the good should be to have some common macros the allows us to build
+packages form one distro to other. I ported in my rhel 4 and 5 mkrel to get
+most compatibility to mandriva specs. But now fedora (hope rhel 6 as well)
+uses %dist so why not to use a common point to that macro and extend 
+compatibility? 
+> What do other people think?
+I think we should think to a transition solution at least...
+
+-- 
+	Angelo
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