[Yum] Build issues on rhel4

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:04:23PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-22-09 at 13:26 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > Hmm, interesting.
> > 
> > Either way, for both yum and yum-utils the _sysconfdir, _mandir, and
> > _initrddir are not passed to configure and so having the macros in use
> > there cause breakage when they're not the default on the platform that
> > the package maintainer is using.
> > 
> > If these aren't going to be passed to configure, then they should be
> > removed because they're getting in the way of the specfile being
> > cross-platform.
> > 
> > Personally I think it'd be better to have conditionals at least where
> > the macro's aren't defined. For instance, documenting that for
> > building on RHELAS you have to run 
> > 
> > rpmbuild --define "RHEL 1"
> > 
> > so that this in the top:
> > %if %{RHEL}
> >   %define _sysconfdir /etc
> > %else
> >   %define something else 
> > %endif
> > 
> > Makes everything work.
> 
> I don't think anyone cares enough to make the specfile for yum
> cross-platform. "Cross-platform" specfiles are a horrid mess, and it's
> much better if someone just maintains their own specfile for their
> favourite distribution.
> 
> Redhat rpm config package is the assumed requirement for a sane build
> environment, so it's not explicitly defined, just like rpm-build isn't
> explicitly defined. It's assumed that if you're going to build RPMs,
> you're going to have this package installed.

Fair enough. As long as it's a consious decision I'm not going to make
a further point about it.
 
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Thanks,

-Peter


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