Re: canonical way to detect platform/distribution

IMHO, the general problem of vendor rpm fragmentation isn't likely to be
resolved
with rpm macros. But for a single distro (rhel vs suse vs mandriva vs ...)
and different release of this, it is a possibility: not good in general but
it's life...............

Macros if abused  are  for itself a source of incompatibility: use it
carefully. I know it is not so simple but a little discipline and more QA in
rpm packaging it is often necessary
if not desiderable always, AFAICT.

Regards


2008/4/19 Jeff Johnson <[email protected]>:

>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Brian Reichert <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to design a spec file that does different things depending
> > on the distribution.  But, I can't see a canonical way of doing it.
> >
> > My current development platform is CentOS 5.1.
> >
> > On this list, and on the net, I've seen this construct
> >
> >  %if 0%{?fedora} > 4 || 0%{?rhel} > 4
> >  # do stuff
> >  %endif
> >
> > or this:
> >
> >  %if 0%{rhel_version}%{centos_version} == 0
> >  # do stuff
> >  %endif
> >
> > but none of these sorts of macros seem to be defined by the rpmbuild
> > universe.
> >
> > 'rpm --showrc' doesn't seem to provide any clues about distribution or
> > platform.
> >
> > Any advice out there?  Pointers welcome...
> >
> >
> You likely need to install the redhat-rpm-config package, that's usually
> where
> vendor peculier macros are supplied by RHEL.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
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