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Re: dist macro
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:49:43 -0600
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On 11/21/2012 12:44 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> It appears that SL packages are being built with a different "dist" 
> rpm macro than is in the sl-release package.  e.g.:
>
> postgresql.x86_64    8.4.13-1.el6_3       sl-security
>
> But the dist macro in sl-release-6.3-1 is still "el6", not "el6_3".  
> So when I build an updated package locally it has a NEVRA of 
> "postgresql-8.4.13-1.el6.cora.1" which is not newer than the SL version.
>
> What version of sl-release are the released packages built against?  
> Or is there some other modification done?
>
> Thanks!
>

The package was built to match the upstream name.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1263.html#Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%20Server%20%28v.%206%29

Pat

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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer

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