Managing spec files

[Steve Traylen]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Matt Ford <matt.ford at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am looking at building a fedora package.  I have been over guidelines
> and taken a look at the build system.  What I am not clear on is how I
> maintain spec files for different distributions i.e., F12, F11, F10, or
> even EPEL.

Initially to have a package added in principal it only has to work on
rawhide for release with the next release.
>
> Do I have to branch and maintain each spec file separately or is there a
> better way?  Are there any tools that abstract the commonality?  Do
> people try to write spec files that work on any distro with conditionals?
>
It is true that the separate .spec files  are maintained separately. What many
people try and do is maintain them as identical, at least at the start.
Have a look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag#Conditionals
of course with time with different update policies it will happen that say EPEL
and rawhide .specs diverge.




> Thanks for any wise words,
>
> Matt.
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