On 15 November 2006 at 12:28, "Jeff Johnson" <n3npq.jbj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In the prep, build, install sections of the spec file "%ifos
> > Linux" works fine. But, "%ifos solaris2.8" doesn't work at
> > all. If I use "%ifos solaris2.8" in the definitions section,
> > i.e. outside prep etc, I can confirm that the os is indeed known
> > to rpm as solaris2.8 by defining something else, e.g. "%define
> > myaction echo os is solaris2.8".
> >
> > Why would %ifos work for Linux but not other solaris2.8? How
> > could I get it to work for solaris2.8?
>
> For non-linux, you're gonna be way happier choosing your
> own os designator imho.
>
> That can be done by changing "OS" below
> echo "sparc-sun-OS" > /etc/rpm/platform
>
> Sure it makes sense to choose something conventional and
> unsurprising, like whatever config.guess returns.
>
> If you really must add compatibility rules to rpmrc, that isn't impossibly
> hard. Be forewarned that rpm-4.4.7 does not read rpmrc by default,
> and all of the compatibility rules are in the process of being removed
> in favor of the simpler to understand and maintain
>
> rpmbuild ... --target=CPU-VENDOR-OS ...
>
> I.e. CPU and VENDOR and OS are whatever you want them to be, no
> fuss, no muss.
>
> Othere you're stuck with a rather twitchy and stinky os string remapping
> that attempts to remap whatever is returned by uname(2) into Something
> Else Instead.
The cpu-vendor-os stuff seems like a much simpler route and I would
be one to welcome it.
I'm not too sure how that relates to my situation tho. Here's what
I'm doing:
%build
[some stuff]
%ifos solaris2.8
%{_bindir}/egd.pl --kill checks/entropy
%endif
The above doesn't run the perl script on solaris2.8 machines at the
time that I build the rpm packages. "%ifos solaris2.8" outside one
of the build stages, i.e. at the top of a spec file where variables
are typically set, _does_ behave as if the os is solaris2.8. For the
linux os, %ifos works everywhere. Is this something that can be
altered by %_sysconfdir/rpm/platform contents?
My workaround is to do this near the top of the spec file
%ifos solaris2.8
%define myscript %{_bindir}/egd.pl --kill checks/entropy
%else
%define myscript echo do nothing
%endif
...
%build
[some stuff]
%myscript
The downside of this is that I have to edit the spec files for my
existing rpms in order to rebuild them.
> Hint: you can guess from "solaris2.8" the last time the code was changed.
;-)
Thanks....
--
Kevin
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