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Re: spec file for multiple distributions.



John Pye skrev, on 05/21/2007 09:27 AM:

Tony Earnshaw wrote:
 use %{dist} but it's defined in a macro? and about naming
packages : can i dynamically name a package regarding to the
distribution it's been built ?


I never wrote that ...

%{dist} can be defined in your .rpmmacros file, which you create in your
home directory on each separate build host. Then you add %{dist} at the
end of your 'Release:' line, and the .rpm files will end up with the
dist tag in the resulting filenames (suggest that you use %{?dist} so
that if the marco file is missing, you end up with no text added).

This advice has the ovious disadvantage that it presupposes that *everbody* has this definition in their .rpmmacros file - even that they have an .rpmmacros file at all. Most people don't. Most of the grown-up spec writers I know have some method of defining %dist in their spec files, too many to name.

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl


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