On Saturday, January 15, 2011 04:07:56 pm Anssi Hannula wrote: > Hi all! > > Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to > 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all? > > Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any > "%if %mdkversion < x" to fail to build. > > I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that > most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including > those provided by any 3rd party packagers. > > Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very > little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases, > but not before. > > However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not > have these macros at all. > > What do other people think?
There is also an %exclude in the file section that doesn't work on mageia -- Thomas