On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:29:01 -0600
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>> "PH" == Paul Howarth
<paul(a)city-fan.org> writes:
PH> In perl-Module-Extract-VERSION I have this for provides filtering
PH> that works in EPEL < 7:
Maybe I can grep that out, but you really should be using the proper
macros in releases where they are supported.
I do:
# Filter bogus provide for perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version) (rpm 4.9 onwards)
#global __provides_exclude ^perl\\(ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version\\)
I have both the old and new style filtering in place as one works in
Fedora, the other in EPEL and they don't interfere with each other, so
I can maintain the same spec everywhere.
PH> It's been there for a long time and it's quite common
in perl
PH> module packages. I don't think this works with %global instead of
PH> %define.
I'm not sure; has anyone actually tried it?
Just tried it now and replacing %define with %global worked in this
case for both EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 builds. I'm sure I had some issues with
this when I switched to %global initially so I'll get rid of the
%defines as and when I do package updates and check carefully that I'm
getting the expected results.
Paul.