[Fedora-packaging] Checking distro release from spec file
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Tue Mar 17 00:56:52 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:51:27PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a "distro agnostic" spec file that will apply two
>> patches:
>>
>> - Patch 1 if and only if we're building for EL5 or EL4
>> - Patch 2 if and only if we're building for EL4
>>
>> I know I can check for EL with the presence of the %{fedora} macro,
>
> %{fedora} macro is the *fedora* release, for EL, the corresponding macro
> is %{rhel}.
>
> In your case. you could use something like:
>
> %if 0%{?rhel} >= 4
> %patch1 ...
> %endif
>
> %if 0%{?rhel} >= 5
> %patch2 ...
> %endif
Slick. Thanks Rex.
Ray
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