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