Different spec for el5

[Sergio Belkin]

2011/4/2 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>:
> On 04/02/2011 05:02 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> Hi fedora community,
>>
>> I maintain ftop package. I've made fedora and el6 packages. Taking
>> account different requirements for epel5 packages, now I'd want to
>> make an el el5 package. It's not clear what i should do.
>>
>> 1. If I create an new spec with conditionals touch fedora packages and
>> el6 but does make sense increase EVR only for it?
>
> Nope (in case you mean bumping the EVR for EL6 and Fedora packages).
>
>> 2. If I create a modified spec for el5, should I increase the EVR? Can
>> a package have a different EVR of el6 and fedora ones? Or can an el5
>> package has the same EVR that el6 and fedora ones but different
>> content?
>
> Take the EL6 spec, make necessary changes to it for EL5, and bump EVR of
> the EL5 package by adding a digit *after* the disttag, that way it won't
> cause problems when upgrading from EL5 to EL6.  Then at the next EL6
> package release, fold in the changes made to the EL5 specfile if you
> like and from there on you can use the same specfile for EL5 and EL6.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
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Thanks Ville is just what I'm looking for!

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