On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:22:30 -0500 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Martial Paupe wrote: > > On Monday 23 November 2009 16:21:53 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >> >>>>> "MP" == Martial Paupe writes: > >> > >> MP> hello, I'm building packages and I want to use disttag as > >> MP> referred at this page. > >> > >> Note that page describes what works in the Fedora buildsystem. The > >> %dist macro isn't going to be defined by default on most systems, > >> although if you install the redhat-rpm-config package you should > >> have it. > > Have got that package (redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-29.el5) but it's > > not working. How I can enable that on rhel5. > > > >> Generally, for Fedora packaging you should probably just install > >> the fedora-packager package which will pull in the above macros and > >> various other useful things. > > > > The %dist macro is defined in /etc/rpm/macros.dist which (in Fedora) > belongs to the fedora-release package. I don't know if you should > install that package on rhel5. But you can define the %dist macro, or > any macro in your ~/.rpmmacros file. just add this line: > %dist el5 > or something like that. That would be: %dist .el5 (the leading dot is needed) This macro is not defined in any existing EL-5 package, only in the Fedora buildsystem, so unless you're building your packages using mock, you'll need this local macro definition. Paul. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
