On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 19:11 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 01/22/2016 06:55 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > > > > "AW" == Adam Williamson
<awilliam(a)redhat.com> writes:
>
> AW> Thanks for working on this! Selfishly, I care more about EL6 because
> AW> I just don't do EL5 builds for any of my packages =) but you're the
> AW> one doing the work.
>
> Honestly I don't really care much about EPEL5, 6 or 7. But after
> grousing for too long that supporting EPEL and Fedora in a single spec
> makes too many Fedora specs look like crap, I figured should
> actually do something about it.
>
> AW> It would be really great to have the common python macros on EL6 -
> AW> the ones referred to in the Python packaging page.
>
> Yep, those are on the TODO list. Though I'm not 100% sure which ones
> should be added. Do you have a package handy which would in EL6 with no
> changes _if_ the macros were in there? (I.e. something where all of the
> deps are there and such.) Actually finding packages I can use for
> testing like this isn't always easy.
>
The python macros are also in the various python-rpm-macros sub-packages
in EPEL as well. Perhaps we could just have epel-rpm-macros require
them as appropriate.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that - so you can use them on EPEL 6 just by
buildrequiring python-rpm-macros?
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