Bug 50803
| Summary: | Add version number to the %{DISTRIBUTION} tag | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Vidar Langseid <vl> |
| Component: | rpm-build | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-03 14:02:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Adding some way of detecting binary incompatibilities is needed, but Distribution: is not the answer because: 1) packages built from one Red Hat distribution are frequently shipped with another distribution. 2) there's a whole lot of variance in the values taken on by the Distribution tag, even for Red Hat packages. Basically, you can't trust what's in the Distribution: tag. 3) Distribution is pure mechanism, there's no clear semantics for when/if/how "binary compatibile" should be reflected in a changed Distribution: version. |
Description of Problem: This is more like a feature request for your building environment, not for the rpm-build package itself. Rpms shipped with RedHat 7.1 has this DISTRIBUTION tag value: # rpm -q --queryformat "%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" bash Red Hat Linux I think that it would be great if the rh version number also was added to this tag (optioanlly add a DISTRIBUTIONVERSION tag) like this # rpm -q --queryformat "%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" bash Red Hat Linux 7.1 rh is not binary compatible between (major) versions. You already have the depency checking for this but I think it would be a nice feature. It would be nice to use when querying rpms which is not yet installed I hope this will be considered before the next rh release. How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information: