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Re: dist macro
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:16:25 -0600
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On 11/21/2012 01:02 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 11:49 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>> On 11/21/2012 12:44 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> It appears that SL packages are being built with a different "dist" rpm
>>> macro than is in the sl-release package.  e.g.:
>>>
>>> postgresql.x86_64    8.4.13-1.el6_3       sl-security
>>>
>>> But the dist macro in sl-release-6.3-1 is still "el6", not "el6_3". 
>>> So when
>>> I build an updated package locally it has a NEVRA of
>>> "postgresql-8.4.13-1.el6.cora.1" which is not newer than the SL 
>>> version.
>>>
>>> What version of sl-release are the released packages built against? 
>>> Or is
>>> there some other modification done?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> The package was built to match the upstream name.
>>
>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1263.html#Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%20Server%20%28v.%206%29 
>>
>>
>>
>> Pat
>>
>
> Which is good :).  Hmm, looks likes 
> redhat-release-server-6Server-6.3.0.3.el6 still has dist set to el6, 
> so that not how they do it :(.  Unfortunately I'm building locally 
> with mock and I don't know of a way to override the dist macro in that 
> way.
>

Untested theory:

Perhaps adding this to your mock config file?
config_opts['macros']['%dist'] = 'asdf'



-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer

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