Determine if adding the OS qualifier to the RPMs would be beneficial
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Background
Traditionally, the SIMP RPMs were packaged where the %{dist} tag was omitted if the package had nothing that bound it to the release and included if there were distribution specific items in the RPM spec file.
Over time, this has shown to cause some difficulties around release time in that you may end up with the same package built and released twice for EL6 and EL7 when it should not have been. When you then go to point at an upstream repo, you will get YUM issues where it finds that the upstream package.
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RHEL and its derivatives have gone to just rolling in the %{dist} tag no matter what to make everything easy to maintain.
Options considered
| Option 1: | Option 2: | |
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| Description | Leave things the way they are | Add the %{dist} tag to all RPMs |
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| Estimated cost | TRIVIAL | LOW |
Fewer builds (only one instead of two or more)
If we don't get it 100% correct all the time, we run the risk of having the same RPM with different checksums in the associated yum repos and/or ISOs.