[suggest] confusion about alpine (and rf in general)

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Joe Pruett wrote:

> the rpms i have installed are alpine-1.10-1.el4.rf and 
> 1.10-1.el5.rf. they have a problem with the pine.conf being 
> in /usr/local/lib.  when i look at the spec file in svn, it 
> claims to have fixed this problem.  the comment for the fix 
> indicates 1.10-2, but the release in the spec is still 1.

Right, I was planning to do it but while wondering whether I should use 
the original pine.conf or start writing a new one got distracted ...


> so i am guessing that the spec should have 2.rf as the 
> release?  and that leads me to wonder where the el4/el5 is 
> being stuffed in?  there isn't a macro in the release field, 
> so is it done on the fly by the build system?

The buildsystem adds the proper disttag.

I will add the original pine.conf for now...

Thanks for reporting !!
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