[Bug 165265] Review Request: libnjb

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 14:46 -0400, bugzilla at redhat.com wrote:

> ------- Additional Comments From triad at df.lth.se  2005-08-07 14:46 EST -------
> Thanks Ralf, your comments are much welcomed and your advice much
> needed.
> 
> The Packager:-tag is only used conditionally if built for something
> else than Fedora. (One of the two questionable conditionals.) rpmlint
> obviously does not honour conditionals.
> 
> Regarding the conditionals: these have been introduced in accordance
> with the dist-tag guidelines at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag
> in order to use the same .spec file for Mandrake, PLD and possibly SuSE.
Sorry, but any such attempt is extremely complicated or error-prone rsp.
only works in primitive cases, to say the least.

E.g. %configure is not supported by SuSE, SuSE uses their meta-tags
(#neededforbuild etc.), packages are named differently on different
distros and might have different deps on different distros, etc.

In practice. "portable rpm.specs" are very hard to write and hardly
work.

> If it is the view of the Fedora Extras project that conditionals may not
> be used to prepare generic .spec files, 
I don't know what's the official position of FE on this.

My personaly position is not to approve packages with such macros,
because they are too error prone.

Ralf