[Fedora-packaging] disttag doesn't work

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:22:30 -0500
Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Martial Paupe wrote:
> > On Monday 23 November 2009 16:21:53 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >> >>>>> "MP" == Martial Paupe writes:
> >>
> >> MP> hello, I'm building packages and I want to use disttag as
> >> MP> referred at this page.
> >>
> >> Note that page describes what works in the Fedora buildsystem.  The
> >> %dist macro isn't going to be defined by default on most systems,
> >> although if you install the redhat-rpm-config package you should
> >> have it.
> > Have got that package (redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-29.el5) but it's
> > not working. How I can enable that on rhel5.
> >
> >> Generally, for Fedora packaging you should probably just install
> >> the fedora-packager package which will pull in the above macros and
> >> various other useful things.
> >
> 
> The %dist macro is defined in /etc/rpm/macros.dist which (in Fedora)
> belongs to the fedora-release package. I don't know if you should
> install that package on rhel5. But you can define the %dist macro, or
> any macro in your ~/.rpmmacros file. just add this line:
> %dist el5
> or something like that.

That would be:

%dist	.el5

(the leading dot is needed)

This macro is not defined in any existing EL-5 package, only in the
Fedora buildsystem, so unless you're building your packages using mock,
you'll need this local macro definition.

Paul.