cvs question

[Andrea Musuruane]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:01 PM, solarflow99<solarflow99 at 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.3Fdist.7D_Tag

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.

Bye,

Andrea.