[meego-packaging] MeeGo and compatibility with other distros

[Anas Nashif]

On 2010-07-01, at 1:26 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> So I have .spec file that works fine for Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, and
> MeeGo... isn't that a good thing?
> 
> Ok, I don't know about OpenSUSE, but I'm familiar with Fedora
> guidelines, and from what I can see they are not that different from
> MeeGo's.
> 
> I only see a few differences:
> 
> 1) Release: 1%{?dist}

While obs does not complain about this, it is not good, since you cant manipulate the Release if you need to. Release is usually managed by obs itself.
%{?dist} in the Release makes the release number equal nil and you cant set it correctly to override automatic release numbering done by obs.

%{?dist} is not need because we do this differently and unlike fedora we do not have an extension like this, we used to have to for moblin, but not anymore.

Anas


> 2) %changelog
> 
> OBS seems to be happy having these... So I guess it should be ok for
> MeeGo, right?
> 
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
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