Re: Attn Packagers

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

In message <20011009223309 A10148 laptop thegoldbergs ca>, Jody Goldberg writes
:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:16:08PM -0400, jgotts linuxsavvy com wrote:

> > spec file updated in CVS.

> Actually I intentionally did not add
>    Requires: bonobo >= 1.0.9
> to the spec file.  Bonobo is not a requirement, the non-bonobo build
> will continue to be supported for quite some time.  However, we
> should use it if version >= 1.0.9 is available.  Can you express
> that in an rpm ?

Actually it's okay because the spec file won't work if bonobo isn't installed.
The reason is that you use [version]-bonobo as the name for some directories
if bonobo is available and [version] if bonobo isn't available.

It would be possible to add something like this:

%define WithBonobo 1

# I don't know if you can define something to be the empty string.  If you
# can't, you might be able to use "".
%if %{WithBonobo}
%define bonobo -bonobo
%else
%define bonobo
%endif

%if %{WithBonobo}
Requires: bonobo >= 1.0.9
%endif

s/-bonobo/%{bonobo}/ in the files section(s).

I have no idea how we could make both cases work without having the user edit
at least the %define WithBonobo for building the uncommon case.

John

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