[ATrpms-devel] Rebuilding dovecot

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +0000, John Robinson wrote:
> 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.

What if RHEL4 fixes the quota headers in 4.5? You would need to
rebuild the rpms for all distros. That way you can simply say that
RHEL4 builds are now as sane as RHEL3 builds and you don't need the
extra switch. Also new distros like Fedora 7 run out of the box w/o
adding new logic to the specfile (also necessitating to rebuild the
src.rpm and all binary rpms for that reason only).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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