Bug 604532
| Summary: | ivtv-firmware has missing %{?dist} tag in NVR | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Daniel Mach <dmach> |
| Component: | ivtv-firmware | Assignee: | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | dgregor, lwang |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-08-05 19:36:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** If you would still like this issue considered for the current release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** Firmware is firmware is firmware. The same firmware package could be used across multiple distributions without having to rebuild it, since there's nothing to rebuild. Firmware is quite commonly packaged without a dist tag. This is not a bug. Slightly more background info: This firmware hasn't changed since 2008, as evident from the version string. We package it once in Fedora, without a dist tag, and the same package then gets propagated to all current trees at the time, and then gets carried forward to each new release. The contents aren't going to change, since its a binary-only firmware. I agree with Jarod's aguments. So, I'm closing it as NOTABUG. What happens if we want to deliver ivtv-firmware-20080701-20.2 on RHEL 5? We would need to rebuild the package for several reasons (different GPG key, RHEL 6 RPMs aren't backward-compatible, different buildroots). So, in order to rebuild the package you would have to modify the release field. It's much simpler to use %{?dist}. It makes rebuilds much more pleasant.
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%{?dist} is missing in package release. actual NVR: ivtv-firmware-20080701-20.2 correct NVR: ivtv-firmware-20080701-20.2%{?dist}