Re: proper way to distinguish epel from fedora

[Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy nobugconsulting ro>]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 11/11/2009 10:58 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>   
> > Farkas Levente wrote:
> >     
> > > On 11/11/2009 05:13 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:15:58 pm BJ Dierkes wrote:
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> > > >         
> > > > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Steve Traylen wrote:
> > > > >      
> > > > >           
> > > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <wolfy nobugconsulting ro> wrote:
> > > > > >        
> > > > > >             
> > > > > > > Farkas Levente wrote:
> > > > > > >          
> > > > > > >               
> > > > > > > > hi,
> > > > > > > > what's the proper way to distinguish epel from fedora in the spec
> > > > > > > > file?
> > > > > > > > i'd like to add
> > > > > > > > ExcludeArch:    ppc ppc64
> > > > > > > > on epel but not in case of fedora in a package (since there is no
> > > > > > > > java
> > > > > > > > on ppc on epel). but what's the current recommended way to do so?
> > > > > > > > unfortunately %{?rhel} is not defined even in rhel-5 so what else
> > > > > > > > can i
> > > > > > > >             
> > > > > > > >                 
> > > > > Is there any problem with:
> > > > >
> > > > > %if %{el5}
> > > > > ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64
> > > > > %endif
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > yes nothing defines %{el5}  and you would get a failure on all targets
> > > > the correct way to handle it would be
> > > > %if 0%{?rhel} > 1
> > > > ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64
> > > > %endif
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > which is still not working for those who not install the extra packages
> > > buildsys-macros and of course won't work with rhel 6 where these exclude
> > > shouldn't have to defined.
> > > so until now no one send a general good solution:-(
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > The mock rpm distributed in epel contains something similar to
> >
> >    [groups]
> >    name=groups
> >    baseurl=http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel5/x86_64/
> >
> > I do not want to sound harsh but if you refuse to use the macros which
> > define the settings of the build infrastructure (either passing the info
> > to mock or by defining  it in .rpmmacros (or any similar way)), how do
> > you expect to find out what distro you are building for ?
> >     
>
> the difference is that on fedora the distro itself contains these macro
> while on rhel it's an external addon package.
>
>   
Well,  if you are not happy with the solutions that we have given you 
and the missing macros from the distro are your show stopper, there is 
another easy solution: just ask RH to include and distribute those 
macros. I am sure that they will obey at once :)