unifying of spec files for different Fedora releases

[Rex Dieter]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:03 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> 
>> Should I check the value of "%fedora" so it would look like
>>
>> %if "%fedora" < 5
>> BuildRequires: xorg-x11-Xvfb
>> %else
>> BuildRequires: xorg-x11-server-Xvfb, xorg-x11-fonts-base
>> %endif
>>
>> or should I use "%dist" for the checks? I was probably already mentioned
>> on this list, but I not able to find it.
> 
> Problem with both:
> 
> [mpeters at atlantis ~]$ rpm -E %dist
> %dist
> [mpeters at atlantis ~]$ rpm -E %fedora
> %fedora
> [mpeters at atlantis ~]$
> 
> It would make the spec file unbuildable on a lot of systems.

FYI, we're speaking here only in the context of Fedora Extras and it's
buildsystem.

-- Rex