[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Mon Jan 17 08:05:24 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+> On Saturday, January 15, 2011 04:07:56 pm Anssi Hannula wrote:
+>> 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?
+>
+> There is also an %exclude in the file section that doesn't work on mageia
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+
+no this doesn't work with latest rpm, in mageia AND in mandriva.
+Fom rpm devs POV, this is now how it should work
+