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>