Re: Over 40% of the 6.0 RPM's, especially SRPM's, are not RHEL 5 compatible

since 6.0 isn't a release yet I don't think it's a huge concern, but
we should definitely rebuild all of these packages prior to 6.0 even
going beta... we can't leave a large portion of functionality
unavailable to one of our supported platforms.
Jason

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> After some recent discussion about which RPM versions were used to
> build the 6.0 software, and some very helpful explanation of the use
> of the '%{rpmversion}' option for detecting which are compatible with
> older releases, I've noticed that approximately 40% of the SRPM's in
> the Jpackage 6.0 release are not installable under RHEL 5.
>
> I realize it's a pain in the neck, and potentially begging for version
> skew. But how bad would it be to set up at least an SRPM directory
> with those SRPM's rebuilt, perhaps with a slightly updated "Release:"
> field to avoid confusion about the checksums of the SRPM packages. I
> admit that I, personally, like using this syntax.
>
>    Release: 1%{?dist}
>
> That way, I can set "dist" locally in .rpmmacros or as an rpmbuild
> option to set an OS or configuration environment specific settting. It
> might be useful here and in general.
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