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 > -- Nelson Marques /* http://www.marques.so [log in to unmask] */