>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Hodge <Neil> writes:
>> I had to edit the make_uninstall script (mku) to replace "rpm -bb"
>> with "rpmbuild -bb" to get it to work on RH 8.0.
Neil> What if a person want backward compatibility with previous
Neil> versions of rpm? Is there some kind of built-in mechanism for
Neil> this, or does the script need to check the major version of rpm
Neil> and act appropriately?
I don't know. I just changed the mku script to replace all occurrences
of "rpm -bb" with "rpmbuild -bb". rpmbuild is available as far back
as RH 7.1, but not earlier.
I'd guess that you could use "rpmbuild -bb" instead of "rpm -bb" for RH 7.x
and RH 8.0. If you're worried about rpmbuild not being present on an
earlier Red Hat system, you could use the following script:
RPMBUILD=`type -path rpmbuild`
if [ -x "$RPMBUILD" ]
then
BUILDCMD=$RPMBUILD
else
BUILDCMD=/bin/rpm
fi
and then use "$BUILDCMD -bb" to do the builds. This presumes that all
versions of rpmbuild have the "-bb" functionality (I'd think they would).
Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>, the Red Hat rpm guru, could give you a
definitive answer.
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