RPM spec file could do a better job of working with more distros

[wayland]

Gerd sent me a version of the spec file that had been modified by Jerome Quelin to work on Mandriva. I've tried to create a version of the spec file that works on Fedora, SuSE, and Mandriva, by incorporating as much as possible of the changes desired by Jerome Quelin. I only have a Fedora (Fedora 10) system to check on, but it works fine there.

[wayland]

Patch to make spec file work with multiple distributions

[allison]

<allison>	hmmm... I have serious doubts about how possible it's going to be to have one specfile for all the different distributions
	<allison>	they have such extremely different requirements
	<allison>	and, the people who are maintaining one have no clue what the other needs
	<allison>	and vice versa
	<allison>	and no one is testing all the specfiles for all the distributions
	<allison>	what I want is to check the specfiles for each distribution into ports/
	<allison>	and just delete the top-level parrot.spec
	<allison>	so, if someone builds a custom, up-to-date RPM for their distribution, it will be using the exact same specfile as the distribution

[wayland]

Ok, I've attached a new patch. All this does is: - Copy the existing spec file to ports/fedora/ and ports/suse/ - Remove the few lines that are conditional on the distro (sensibly; I keep the appropriate stuff) - Adds a new spec file for Mandriva -- This was e-mailed to me by Gerd Pokorras(sp?) who got it from Jerome Quelin. I can't test it, but I haven't modified it at all.

Anyway, hopefully these are fine, and hopefully the patch works -- I'm not sure my svn skills were up to it this time. Let me know if it doesn't work.

[wayland]

Patch with separate spec files for separate distros

[allison]

Patch applied in r38159, thanks! Resolving ticket.