30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
9:29 p.m.
On 07/31/2008 12:02 AM, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5.
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This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and depends on the existing perl package?
I would just rpmbuild with --nodeps.
Wrong approach. Apply Johnny's advice. Or be polite and modify the spec to distinguish between building on fedora >=7 or on Centos (RHEL). Something along the following line should do:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 6 BuildRequires perl-devel %else BuildRequires perl %endif