Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:56:35PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Rex Dieter
> > <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> ping, any comment or objection?
> >>
> >> I'll work on a patch for epel-release to implement a %{epel} macro, in
> >> case anyone was waiting for implementation details.
> >>
> >>
> > Seems like it can't hurt much to have such a macro defined by the
> > epel-release package. Could you give an example of the kind of logic
> > you'd use this for?
>
> Sure. My primary motivation is that I'd like be able keep fedora/rhel
> kde
> packaging merged in fedora's git repos. *Normally*, rhel kde packaging
> disables some features ( based on %rhel macro), but I'd like to be able
> (re)enable those via some "extras" macro, like %epel. This is one
> approach redhat's kde maintainers agreed would be acceptable.
How would enabling features at build-time contional on the presence of
epel-release and this macro help? Will you be building in two
environments and creating two repositories--one for RHEL binaries and
one for RHEL+EPEL binaries?
Yes, yes, respectively. See my first post in this thread, regarding a KDE
for RHEL7 COPR.
"My primary motivation is to simplify the task of doing something like:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/
where I currently end up patching various .spec files (mostly to enable
features due to having epel available), and I'd like to be able to minimize
having to do that."
-- Rex