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> Awesome attitude from Mister Joe. I'll take it. Let's get it over with. -Jeroen