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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Sun Jan 16 14:10:10 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Op zondag 16 januari 2011 12:32:24 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
><i> Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 11:26:54, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
</I>><i> > In data domenica 16 gennaio 2011 00:07:56, Anssi Hannula ha scritto:
</I>><i> > > Hi all!
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to
</I>><i> > > 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all?
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any
</I>><i> > > "%if %mdkversion < x" to fail to build.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that
</I>><i> > > most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including
</I>><i> > > those provided by any 3rd party packagers.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very
</I>><i> > > little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases,
</I>><i> > > but not before.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I believe you're right at the moment, now that we're importing things,
</I>><i> > but after the very first time, starts becoming nonsense since
</I>><i> > i believe we're going to work on our packages distro per distro not
</I>><i> > taking every time srpms from mandriva as we're doing now.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, it may be a naïve hope, but I thought I could maintain the same spec
</I>><i> file for Mandriva and Mageia for my packages. It's not just a matter of
</I>><i> importing SRPMS from Mandriva to Mageia.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > > However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should
</I>><i> > > not have these macros at all.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > the good should be to have some common macros the allows us to build
</I>><i> > packages form one distro to other. I ported in my rhel 4 and 5 mkrel to
</I>><i> > get most compatibility to mandriva specs. But now fedora (hope rhel 6 as
</I>><i> > well) uses %dist so why not to use a common point to that macro and
</I>><i> > extend compatibility?
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</I>><i> OK with that.
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</I>><i> Samuel
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i'm ok with that as well
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