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.. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"