On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ben Boeckel <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > yersinia wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:59:43 -0600, Jr. wrote: > >> > > >> >> What is the effect on non-Fedora and older distributions > (pre F10) if I > >> >> mark a subpackage (such as documentation) with BuildArch: > noarch? > >> > > >> > You can evaluate the %fedora variable to use this new > feature only > >> > for Fedora >= 10: > >> > > >> > %if 0%{?fedora} > 9 > >> > BuildArch: noarch > >> > %endif > >> > > >> > >> Excellent. That's what I was looking for. > >> > > > > No, it is not right for me. The BuildArch issue depends on the > RPM version > > and not from from distro version. It is simply bad style, > IMHO, defining > > in the SPEC file something that depends from the > "distribution" (in the > > large sense not only fedora). I never see > > this style in RHEL package (appart some little package for the > rpm keys > > ecc). Ok is SUSE yes but, again, i don't like define a > dependency based on > > a "distro" version, if possible anyway. > > > > regards > > I don't think you should use a spec file for two distros. AFAIK, > SuSE uses /opt for stuff. Fedora uses /usr. The file listings > would be different for each. I don't think you can have an > every-rpm-distro-under-the-sun specfile and not have it either > messy or wrong. > No everyone agreed with this or would the spec/rpm version frammentation go forever. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00885.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00939.html Regards > > - --Ben > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpV5zgACgkQiPi+MRHG3qTg4wCbBmmc7nSkN9NNF0xK94Evs11f > 4xEAoLtciGgwjRkCl6wiGYt1v3pazh6l > =L40w > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >
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