[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Sun Jan 16 12:32:24 CET 2011

Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 11:26:54, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
+> 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.
+> 
+
+Well, it may be a naïve hope, but I thought I could maintain the same spec file 
+for Mandriva and Mageia for my packages. It's not just a matter of importing 
+SRPMS from Mandriva to Mageia.
+
+> > 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?
+> 
+
+OK with that.
+
+Samuel
+