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Re: dist macro
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:02:24 -0700
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On 11/21/2012 11:49 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 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
>

Which is good :).  Hmm, looks likes redhat-release-server-6Server-6.3.0.3.el6 
still has dist set to el6, so that not how they do it :(.  Unfortunately I'm 
building locally with mock and I don't know of a way to override the dist 
macro in that way.

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