[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 14:10:10 CET 2011


Op zondag 16 januari 2011 12:32:24 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> 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.
> 
> > > However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should
> > > not have these macros at all.
> > 
> > the good should be to have some common macros the allows us to build
> > packages form one distro to other. I ported in my rhel 4 and 5 mkrel to
> > get most compatibility to mandriva specs. But now fedora (hope rhel 6 as
> > well) uses %dist so why not to use a common point to that macro and
> > extend compatibility?
> 
> OK with that.
> 
> Samuel

i'm ok with that as well


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