Re: proper way to distinguish epel from fedora

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:15:58 pm BJ Dierkes wrote:
>  On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Steve Traylen wrote:
>  > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
>  >
>  > <wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro&gt; wrote:
>  >> Farkas Levente wrote:
>  >>> hi,
>  >>> what's the proper way to distinguish epel from fedora in the spec
>  >>> file?
>  >>> i'd like to add
>  >>> ExcludeArch:    ppc ppc64
>  >>> on epel but not in case of fedora in a package (since there is no
>  >>> java
>  >>> on ppc on epel). but what's the current recommended way to do so?
>  >>> unfortunately %{?rhel} is not defined even in rhel-5 so what else
>  >>> can i
>  
>  Is there any problem with:
>  
>  %if %{el5}
>  ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64
>  %endif 
yes nothing defines %{el5}  and you would get a failure on all targets
the correct way to handle it would be 

%if 0%{?rhel} > 1
ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64
%endif


though we do not build epel ppc64


Dennis