[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Mon Jan 17 09:40:06 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Given the fact that rpm5 is drifting away from the usage of %mkrel for using %distepoch, 
+I truly doubt this will happen.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+