Re: cvs question

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:01 PM, solarflow99<solarflow99(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just have a question about updating a package in CVS. From the example, I > edit the spec file and it shows to type: make tag build. However this > command fails, and doing make build doesnt seem to take the new spec file, I > know I must be missing something simple here.. > > > # make tag > cvs tag -c dosemu-1_4_0-4_1905svn > cvs tag: dosemu.spec is locally modified > cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first! > make: *** [tag] Error 1 I just noticed that you didn't use the %{?dist} tag: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Using_the_.25.7B... You should use it otherwise you won't guarantee a clean upgrade path from different Fedora releases (e.g. from F-10 to F-11). A side error of not using the %{?dist} tag will be the impossibility to use "make tag" because different branches cannot have the same tag.