Re: Creating subpackages dynamically

[Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com>]

Valery Reznic wrote:
> --- Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
> As long as i remember, %define "work" always, so this
> code really  problematic.
>
>   
>> 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"?
>>     
> I just suggested another approach to solve your
> problem.
>
> You can have a look in
> /usr/share/doc/rpm-<version>/conditionalbuilds
>   
I didn't find anything that was relevant for my problem there.
> By the way, what do you trying to achive ?
> Do you want only rpm filenames different, or package
> names different too ?
>
>   
The 2 packages are different. RedHat & SuSE pack it differently
(different files and different package name) and I'm trying to build
something that will fit both distros. Any other idea?

Thanks,
Erez