[EPEL-devel] epel-release: consider adding %epel macro ?

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote on Oct 16:
> 
>> I'd like to be able to conditionalize some package features depending on
>> if
>> epel repo is enabled or not.  One way to accomplish that goal is if epel-
>> release defined some macro, say, something like %{epel}, similar to
>> %{feodra} or %{rhel}
>> 
>> (I don't care what the macro is named, as long as the bikeshed remains
>> blue)
>> 
>> My primary motivation is to simplify the task of doing something like:
>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/
>> where I currently end up patching various .spec files (mostly to enable
>> features due to having epel available), and I'd like to be able to
>> minimize having to do that.
>> 
>> thoughts?
> 
> ping, any comment or objection?
> 
> I'll work on a patch for epel-release to implement a %{epel} macro, in
> case anyone was waiting for implementation details.

Here's the epel-release patch as promised (epel7 branch), attached.

-- Rex
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