Hi Pat,

As far as i can see, you need to pipe through an unique identifier. If
you look the 'demo patch' I submitted to CentOS it should be pretty
much an easy fix.

Anytime.

NM


2011/12/27 Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>:
> On 12/23/2011 10:11 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to bring into your consideration an issue that appeared
>> to me on CentOS and that might also appear on SL (I haven't tested it,
>> only next week after Christmas I have some time to check out). It can
>> be that there is no issue with SL, though I believe that it won't be
>> the case.
>>
>> The package 'redhat-rpm-config' places a shell script called 'dist.sh'
>> on /usr/lib/rpm/redhat. This script is used by some macro's to
>> determine the correct suffix when generating a package (el5, el6,
>> fc16, etc). This script can be run with arguments which should return
>> values, for example:
>>
>>  $/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/dist.sh --dist            # should return el6 on
>> Enterprise Linux 6.
>>  $/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/dist.sh --disttype      # should return el
>>  $/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/dist.sh --distnum      # should return 6 on
>> Enterprise Linux 6.
>>
>> redhat-rpm-config on CentOS6 doesn't properly return --disttype and
>> --dist. I have opened a bug on CentOS bugzilla
>> (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5331&nbn=2).
>>
>> In case you want to check this situation on Scientific Linux, could be
>> interesting. While I don't run on product SL or CentOS (only use pure
>> RHEL), I find it easier to build my packages with mock or openSUSE
>> Build System on CentOS or Scientific Linux. This bug prevents that the
>> 'el6' suffix gets on the package name.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> NM
>
> Hi Nelson!
>
> Thanks for this.  SL6.2 does have this issue.  I'm going to start working on
> a fix and get this need for a fix noted in or processes so, hopefully, it
> will always be fixed going forward.
>
> Pat
>
> --
> Pat Riehecky
> Scientific Linux Developer
>



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