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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?</H1>
    <B>Thomas Spuhler</B> 
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    <I>Mon Jan 17 05:51:01 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Saturday, January 15, 2011 04:07:56 pm Anssi Hannula wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi all!
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to
</I>&gt;<i> 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;%if %mdkversion &lt; x&quot; to fail to build.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that
</I>&gt;<i> most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including
</I>&gt;<i> those provided by any 3rd party packagers.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very
</I>&gt;<i> little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases,
</I>&gt;<i> but not before.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not
</I>&gt;<i> have these macros at all.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> What do other people think?
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There is also an %exclude in the file section that doesn't work on mageia

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Thomas
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