<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ben Boeckel <<a href="mailto:MathStuf@gmail.com" target="_blank">MathStuf@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div><div></div><div> yersinia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. > <<a href="mailto:rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu" target="_blank">rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu</a>>wrote: > >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:59:43 -0600, Jr. wrote: >> > >> >> What is the effect on non-Fedora and older distributions (pre F10) if I >> >> mark a subpackage (such as documentation) with BuildArch: noarch? >> > >> > You can evaluate the %fedora variable to use this new feature only >> > for Fedora >= 10: >> > >> > %if 0%{?fedora} > 9 >> > BuildArch: noarch >> > %endif >> > >> >> Excellent. That's what I was looking for. >> > > No, it is not right for me. The BuildArch issue depends on the RPM version > and not from from distro version. It is simply bad style, IMHO, defining > in the SPEC file something that depends from the "distribution" (in the > large sense not only fedora). I never see > this style in RHEL package (appart some little package for the rpm keys > ecc). Ok is SUSE yes but, again, i don't like define a dependency based on > a "distro" version, if possible anyway. > > regards </div></div>I don't think you should use a spec file for two distros. AFAIK, SuSE uses /opt for stuff. Fedora uses /usr. The file listings would be different for each. I don't think you can have an every-rpm-distro-under-the-sun specfile and not have it either messy or wrong. </blockquote><div> No everyone agreed with this or would the spec/rpm version frammentation go forever. <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org/msg00885.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org/msg00885.html</a> <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org/msg00939.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org/msg00939.html</a> Regards </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpV5zgACgkQiPi+MRHG3qTg4wCbBmmc7nSkN9NNF0xK94Evs11f 4xEAoLtciGgwjRkCl6wiGYt1v3pazh6l =L40w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- <div><div></div><div>fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>