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Last change on this file since 721 was 676, checked in by stephand, on May 25, 2004 at 6:05:43 PM

Some notes on building RPMs using the buildsystem on SLES8

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3in order to be able to use the same spec files both on SLES8 and SL 9.0,
4the macro %perl_process_packlist must be made available on SLES8:
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6- copy the macro definition of %perl_process_packlist from a SL 9.0
7 file /usr/lib/rpm/suse_macros to the new file /usr/lib/rpm/sc_macros_sles8
8- %perl_process_packlist depends on the macros %perl_vendorlib and
9 %perl_vendorarch which are missing in SLES8. Copy them from a SL 9.0
10 file /usr/lib/rpm/macros to /usr/lib/rpm/sc_macros_sles8 on SLES8
11- finally add /usr/lib/rpm/sc_macros_sles8 to the definition of macrofiles
12 (search for the line beginning with "macrofiles:")
13 in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc on SLES8
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15But this does not help us if we are using a chrooted build environment,
16because then /usr/lib/rpm/ all comes from the rpm rpm-package.
17Better approach is to create spec-files which determine the current
18OS and do the right things based on that. The macro %suse_version can
19be used for that. There exist macros called %ul_version and %sles_version
20but if we use them, we probably run into problems on norma SL systems.
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