Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

Shawn W Dunn <[email protected]>
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Actually, on OBS, if you want to avoid the %ifdef mess, when building for openSUSE and Fedora, for instance, just use two specfiles.  One would be Package-openSUSE_13.2.spec and the other would be Package-Fedora_21.spec

On May 27, 2015 5:55 AM, Martin Dietze <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 27 May 2015 at 12:59, Alexey I. Froloff <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > There's no suck thing like "unified package", sorry to disappoint 
> > you. 
>
> > It is possible to use one source package to build RPMs for 
> > different distros (like Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, whatever), but due to 
> > little differences in macros, specfile would look like spaghetti 
> > of %ifdef's, each section maintained by different people. 
>
> As far as I understand the very idea behind SuSE's Open Build Service 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Build_Service) is to provide an 
> infrastructure to provide native packages for different distros. This 
> does not free maintainers from making the necessary changes in their 
> specs, and of course this tends to uglify specs. Still I believe that 
> doing this would be a great benefit for the community. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Martin 
>
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