proper way to distinguish epel from fedora

[Steve Traylen]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy at 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


>>
>
> it is defined. See for instance
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libprelude/devel/libprelude.spec?revision=1.49&view=markup
> which separates the BRs for RHEL5 from the rest

You need to install some extra rpm macros with the buildsys-macros pacakage
http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel5/

Steve


>
>
>> use to distinguish it from fedora?
>> thanks in advance.
>>
>> ps. anyway it'd be useful to put into the epel packaging guidelines.
>>
>>
>
>
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