proper way to distinguish epel from fedora

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Tue Nov 10 15:51:03 UTC 2009


Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> what's the proper way to distinguish epel from fedora in the spec file?
> i'd like to add
> ExcludeArch:    ppc ppc64
> on epel but not in case of fedora in a package (since there is no java
> on ppc on epel). but what's the current recommended way to do so?
> unfortunately %{?rhel} is not defined even in rhel-5 so what else can i
>   
it is defined. See for instance 
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libprelude/devel/libprelude.spec?revision=1.49&view=markup 
which separates the BRs for RHEL5 from the rest


> use to distinguish it from fedora?
> thanks in advance.
>
> ps. anyway it'd be useful to put into the epel packaging guidelines.
>
>   


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