[ATrpms-devel] Rebuilding dovecot

[John Robinson]

On 19/02/2007 10:37, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:04:27AM +0000, John Robinson wrote:
>> I'm sure having the spec set defaults based on the distribution would be 
>> better, though. Some that I've seen do exactly that.
> 
> That assumes that you can always guess what distribution this is. Some
> chroot environments are deliberately that scarce that you don't even
> have /etc/issue or /etc/redhat-release available to check against.
> 
> The best thing is to have build-time tests as part of the %build
> section, but if that becomes too involved external switches are second
> best.

Really I meant an external switch to declare what distro, which would in 
turn set the defaults.

Cheers,

John.