On Monday 27 May 2002 05.07, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Sat May 25, 2002 at 12:40:43PM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > [...] > > > > In the next few weeks we will probably be putting out a package for > > > the older distribs to update the rpm macros to include all of those > > > available in 8.2 which will make things *much* easier for building > > > packages. > > > > Good idea. This will make life much easier for all of us. > > Yup... flepied gave me an rpm to do it, I just have to figure out the > best way to implement it, as I don't want to put a bunch of > BuildRequires: rpm-macros in the new specs for updates. > > But yes, it will seriously make life a *lot* easier.
Yes, one immediate thing that comes to my mind is that it has to cope with conditional things like the %configure2.5x macro. For example it may be impossible to upgrade autoconf, libtool, etc. on a ML7.2 system, and in that case this macro needs to mean something else... -- Regards // Oden Eriksson
