Georg.Baum@xxxxxx (Georg Baum) writes: > I am trying to improve the spec file that gets distributed with lyx > (http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/development/lyx.spec.in). > Currently, it has (among others) the following dependencies, which only work > on some red hat version, because the package names differ on other distros: > > Requires: tetex-xdvi, tetex, tetex-latex > > The goal is to make the spec file distribution independant and find the > package names at build time. What I have now is a shell script that finds > the package names of the packages containing xdvi, latex and texconfig: > > %define find_dep %(eval %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/development/tools/find_dep.sh) > > ... > > Requires: %{find_dep} > > > This works, but: > > 1. When building the package, rpm does not stop if the script fails (e. g. > because no latex executable can be found). Is it possible to change this? You need to use BuildRequires: (Requires: are install depedencies, whereas BuildRequires are build depedencies. You probably need both.) > 2. Is it possible to embed the script in the spec file? Maybe this would > solve problem 1, and I have a bad feeling wrt the path constructed with > %{_builddir} etc. I tried to embed it, but did not find a way to do so if > the script uses more than one line. Put the script in %_sourcedir. Simon _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
