Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed Jul 12 17:33:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> My own private rpms that are only good for a certain release have a
>
> BuildRequires: %{dist} == fc4 # change to appropriate buildsystem name for 
> FC4
>
> This way I know that it will not build on something else, and I don't
> have to rely on the intelligence of others to understand my stupidity.

  1: I imagine you meant ".fc4" in the BR above?
  2. Another option is to BR "%{fedora} == 4"; I believe it's just as 
well-supported in the buildsys as %{dist}.  (I used some similar mojo, as 
suggested by Dennis Gilmore, in my dnsmasq package.)

      Jima




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