New repository configuration ponderings

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 17:13 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > PS Where exactly does the $(VERSION) come from ?
> 
> It's basically the same as yum's $releasever. You can set eg.
> APT::DistroVerPkg="fedora-release" and $(VERSION) will be replaced by
> the fedora-release version, and it can additionally be overridden with
> APT::DistroVersion config option. Oh and the $(VERSION) stuff works
> right now (since lorg2 release).

The trouble with this from my point of view is that I provide apt packages 
(and apt configuration files) that have to work on RHEL4 and CentOS4 and 
every other RHEL rebuild.

So indeed, I will have to put APT::DistroVersion in the apt configuration 
if I want to use $(VERSION) in a consistent way. (Or rely on the upstream 
package of apt of course)

Thanks for foreseeing this :)

Kind regards,
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