[Fedora-packaging] Checking distro release from spec file

[Rex Dieter]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:51:27PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>>> I'm trying to write a "distro agnostic" spec file that will apply two
>>> patches:
>>>
>>>   - Patch 1 if and only if we're building for EL5 or EL4
>>>   - Patch 2 if and only if we're building for EL4
>>>
>>> I know I can check for EL with the presence of the %{fedora} macro,
>> %{fedora} macro is the *fedora* release, for EL, the corresponding macro  
>> is %{rhel}.
>>
>> In your case. you could use something like:
>>
>> %if 0%{?rhel} >= 4
>> %patch1 ...
>> %endif
>>
>> %if 0%{?rhel} >= 5
>> %patch2 ...
>> %endif
> 
> Slick.  Thanks Rex.

Here's more gory details:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag
(sorry, should've included the link last time).

-- Rex