FE CVS: missing %dist %fedora?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Feb 13 16:51:24 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:36, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > AFAIK, "make i386" has never defined %dist and %fedora, because "make
> > i386" is just running plain ol' rpmbuild with a few macros on the
> > command line to get everything in the right directory.
>
> You could be right ... the last change to Makefile.common is 1/2 year
> old ;)
>
> Except for very few packages (Inventor is one them) I don't actively use
> %fedora and %dist inside of my specs, and am normally using mock for
> building. So this might have escaped me :-o
>
> >   %dist and %
> > fedora are only defined in the build environment set up by mock.
>
> "make srpm" supports them ;)

One might think this is a bug in Makefile.common.  Any cases where rpm is 
called the dist and fedora should be defined based on what branch it is being 
called from.  I would fix it, but I'm busy preparing koji for release (:

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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