Hi,
I've submitted my first Fedora package for review and sponsoring recently:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673175
I want to submit it for Fedora and EPEL 5. The differences between the two are minimal, there are just some programs missing in EPEL which need to be commented out in the default config.
What is the best way to handle this? Can I keep one spec for both and use conditionals to always build the right way?
I've seen code like "%if 0%{?rhel}" somewhere on the net, but that didn't work for me. I guess the %rhel-macro should be defined in /etc/rpm/macros.dist where I usually find stuff like %fedora but that doesn't exist on my Centos 5.
Or am I supposed to create a completely separate .spec for EPEL once the review, sponsoring etc. for Fedora is done?
Kind regards,
Gerd
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Gerd v. Egidy lists@egidy.de wrote:
Hi,
I've submitted my first Fedora package for review and sponsoring recently:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673175
I want to submit it for Fedora and EPEL 5. The differences between the two are minimal, there are just some programs missing in EPEL which need to be commented out in the default config.
This page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag and the buildsys macros RPM on EPEL5 should help you. http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel5/x86_64/
yes is perfectly possible to have one .spec file for all at the start though they may diverge due to difference update policies in particular. Steve.
What is the best way to handle this? Can I keep one spec for both and use conditionals to always build the right way?
I've seen code like "%if 0%{?rhel}" somewhere on the net, but that didn't work for me. I guess the %rhel-macro should be defined in /etc/rpm/macros.dist where I usually find stuff like %fedora but that doesn't exist on my Centos 5.
Or am I supposed to create a completely separate .spec for EPEL once the review, sponsoring etc. for Fedora is done?
Kind regards,
Gerd
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Hi Steve,
I want to submit it for Fedora and EPEL 5. The differences between the two are minimal, there are just some programs missing in EPEL which need to be commented out in the default config.
This page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag and the buildsys macros RPM on EPEL5 should help you. http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel5/x86_64/
Thanks for the pointers. Installing the buildsys-macros did it.
How can I make sure that buildsys-macros is installed? BuildRequires: buildsys-macros won't work because there is no buildsys-macros on Fedora. And
%if 0%{?rhel} BuildRequires: buildsys-macros %endif
is not going to work too...
BTW, why must buildsys-macros be downloaded manually from the above URL and is not included in the regular EPEL repository?
Kind regards,
Gerd
On 02/01/2011 09:27 AM, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
How can I make sure that buildsys-macros is installed? BuildRequires: buildsys-macros won't work because there is no buildsys-macros on Fedora. And
You don't need to do that as buildsys-macros is part of the buildroot in koji for EPEL5.
$ koji list-groups dist-5E-build build [snip] buildsys-macros: None, default [dist-5E-build] [snip]
BTW, why must buildsys-macros be downloaded manually from the above URL and is not included in the regular EPEL repository?
I don't know why, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to have it in the repository like a normal package, IMO.
"MC" == Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com writes:
MC> I don't know why, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to have it in the MC> repository like a normal package, IMO.
Not that this will really explain anything, but:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563176
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"GvE" == Gerd v Egidy lists@egidy.de writes:
GvE> What is the best way to handle this? Can I keep one spec for both GvE> and use conditionals to always build the right way?
You can. Do keep in mind, however, that the amount of conditional garbage you have to pile into the spec file can get to be a bit much, and it is often much simpler to just have a different spec on el5. These days modern Fedora packaging has diverged quite significantly from what can be supported on el5.
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Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
I've seen code like "%if 0%{?rhel}" somewhere on the net, but that didn't work for me. I guess the %rhel-macro should be defined in /etc/rpm/macros.dist where I usually find stuff like %fedora but that doesn't exist on my Centos 5.
%{rhel} is defined in the EPEL build system. If you want to use it in local builds, you have to use the EPEL mock configs (which also define this) or define it yourself (but normally you're supposed to use mock for builds, not rpmbuild directly).
Alternatively, you can use if !0%{?fedora} instead. Fedora always defines %{fedora}.
Kevin Kofler
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