Johnny Hughes wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >>> Kenneth Porter wrote: >>>> On Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:29 AM +0300 Manuel Wolfshant >>>> <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>> I supplied this as a proposed patch to Rawhide and was told that: >>>> >>>>> Raw Hide spec files are not designed to be built on any distro >>>>> other than >>>>> Raw Hide; you need to fork the spec and keep distro-specific hacks >>>>> in the >>>>> fork. >>>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457334> >>> yea, we know ... hence the centos project is supporting rpmrepo and >>> not epel >>> >> >> I don't see how this has anything to do with EPEL. Subversion and perl >> are core EL product not EPEL. >> > > The specific issue does not ... the concept does (we do things our way > only). But that is not really relevant and I do not want to start a > flame thread with 1000 posts, so I take back my criticism. > I've reopened the bug and asked Joe if I could maintain the little tiny patch in the rawhide spec if he wouldn't. I hope that clarifies the attitude EPEL and Fedora people have. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip