Re: Creating subpackages dynamically

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

--- Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm building rpms for 2 different distributions
> (SuSE & RedHat) using a
> single spec file. In order to do that, I'm using
> "%package". The 2
> packages contain more or less the same files, but
> the package name is
> different.

You can make use %if and/or %? construction to make
you package name, rpm filename, filelist depend on
distribution. No need for subpackages.

Valery


> 
> The problem that I'm trying to solve is that when I
> build the binary rpm
> from the src rpm, I want to create only the package
> for the distribution
> that I run on: if I build it on a SuSE machine, I
> want to create only
> the binary rpm for SuSE and not the binary rpm for
> RedHat.
> 
> I know that if I don't have "%files <package name>"
> in the spec file,
> the rpm for that package will not be created. Can I
> do that dynamically?
> Is there another solution for this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> 
>
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