On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:35:24PM +0200, Simone Caronni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a package that needs procps. While building it in EPEL, i stepped
> onto a packaging problem [1] in the RHEL 6 package.
>
> I've opened the bug, but nobody is looking at it and (my guess) it will be
> probably fixed for RHEL 6.5. Note that the bug has been tagged as "EasyFix"-
>
> The workaround for the problem would be as follows:
>
> %if 0%{?rhel} == 6
> BuildRequires: procps
> %else
> BuildRequires: procps-devel
> %endif
>
> I suppose there's no "provenpackager" group in RHEL, so what should I do in
> this case? Build the package with a workaround in place until the bug is
> fixed or wait on building the package at all?
>
> Thanks,
> --Simone
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950748
There's no point in waiting for the fix. Just build the package
with your workaround and drop it once it's no longer necessary.
Petr
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