On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

>> It was Mandriva, says the changelog:
>> http://rpm5.org/cvs/filediff?f=rpm/platform.in&v1=2.6&v2=2.7
>>
>> Couldn't find their original changelog,
>> seems like it was reset at 2005 or so ?
>
>
> Didn't look hard enough:
>
> * Mon Aug 21 2000 Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com>  
> 3.0.5-11mdk
> - added _initrddir macro to point to %{_sysconfdir}/init.d.
>

Hehe, spec file changelogs make hysterical forensics a breeze ...

> So there you have it...
>


... on a tangential but related issue, I traced the 1st use of versions
added to changelogs to Jakub Jellinek modification to Jens Pertersen
automake packaging in November 2002 (iirc).

Another Mandriva enhancement, exp[loiting the bogus spec file parser,
which did not (and does not) forbid goop after '>' in e-mail address.

2 minutes with grep to figger the answer ...

... and likely another 10 years to fix the rpmbuild spec file parser  
given current interest levels.

73 de Jeff