Re: Creating subpackages dynamically

[Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com>]

Valery Reznic wrote:
> --- 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
>
>   
Using something like:

%if "%{_vendor}" == "suse"
%if %sles_version == 10
%define _build_name_fmt %_arch/sles-name-%{version}.%{release}.%_arch.rpm
%endif
%else
%if %_vendor == "redhat"
%define _build_name_fmt %_arch/redhat-name-%{version}.%{release}.%_arch.rpm
%endif
%endif

was problematic and results in behavior like having 2 debuginfo rpms in
RedHat instead of 1 normal rpm and 1 rpm with debuginfo.

Why don't you recommend using "%package"?

Thanks,
Erez
>   
>> 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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