package for Fedora and EPEL from one spec source?

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Tue Feb 1 17:00:57 UTC 2011


On 02/01/2011 09:27 AM, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> How can I make sure that buildsys-macros is installed?
> BuildRequires: buildsys-macros
> won't work because there is no buildsys-macros on Fedora. And

You don't need to do that as buildsys-macros is part of the buildroot in 
koji for EPEL5.

$ koji list-groups dist-5E-build build
[snip]
buildsys-macros: None, default  [dist-5E-build]
[snip]

> BTW, why must buildsys-macros be downloaded manually from the above URL and is
> not included in the regular EPEL repository?

I don't know why, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to have it in the 
repository like a normal package, IMO.


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