[CentOS-devel] perl-devel package

Mon Aug 4 21:45:30 UTC 2008
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> 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.
>

And I will take back my counter-criticism as I don't want a flame war..


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