Johnny Hughes 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 Do they really consider backwards-compatibility to be a distro-specific hack? Sounds suicidal to me. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com