[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Mon Jan 17 16:58:35 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Michael scherer at 17/01/11 08:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+I think the mkrels will stay for a while tho' (for ease of backporting)
+so I think we'll have some "breathing space" in this regard. I suspect
+that once all the wrinkles are ironed out, that we'll also go down the
+RPM5 route (which will hopefully be easier for us then), in which case
+the distepoch will likely become used by us too.
+
+Hard to say exactly what'll happen in the future, but it's at least
+semi-likely.
+
+Col
+
+
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