On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Andy Wettstein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Redhat added a buildsys-macros rpm for EL5 that at least has the file
> /etc/rpm/macros.dist that defines the dist when building rpms (like
> %dist .el5). See http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0985.html
>
> I see the SRPM in the 5rolling directory for SL but I can't find a
> package that has actually been built. Can this package be added? Or
> tell me if I'm missing something...

It will be included in the next "fastbugs" that are pushed out.

Note that %dist is defined in this rpm as

   %dist .el5

which is commonly not what TUV uses for security errata.

An example of this is

    xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7.i386.rpm

In the above case "%dist .el5_7" was needed.

-Connie Sieh

>
> Thanks
> Andy
>