[CentOS] Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 19:05:33 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm.. You might befit from the portability of this approach
>>
>> %rhel           0%(/bin/rpm -q --f /etc/redhat-release -qf '%{VERSION}\n' )
>>
>> Notice that this now works with RHEL and CentOS, and the "\n" keeps
>> certain programs historically happier with the commands having an EOL.
>
> Nice. Minor corrections  needed:
>
> -f => --f
> -qf => --qf

Sorry to spam the list again ... a correction of the correction needed :-)

--f => -f

So, it will be:

%rhel           0%(/bin/rpm -q -f /etc/redhat-release --qf '%{VERSION}\n' )

Akemi



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