On 05/09/12 12:01, Michael Schroeder wrote:
"noarch" subpackages whould mean to update to a newer rpm version, with lots of compatibility issues. Adding new macros should be ok. (And yes, compatibility *is* an issue for SLES customers.)
Well, kernel team was able to update major kernel version between SLE11SP1 and SP2. It's all about priorities and manpower I guess.
BUT: It makes no sense to do this in the project config, as that means that the customers can't recreate the package from the source rpm.
I didn't know that is required. With all these various OBS subprojects it's very hard to find a package which builds with default config and I'm not even mentioning building OBS src.rpm under non-SUSE distros.
Or put it in another words: it's pretty useless for SLE, but works fine for distros that are not using obsolete version of RPM and macro definitions (openSUSE, Fedora and all RHEL clones).
Is RHEL really different to SLES in that regard?
My guess would be that RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 are using RPM 4.6.x for quite some time now. But I don't know for sure. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak PGP 0xB9A02A3D prusnak[at]opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org