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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080804/2dc776cb/attachment-0007.sig>