Re: xchat.spec updated (OT)

[Spider <spider@bahnhof.se>]

This isn't strictly on the topic, but its a thread about specfiles so why not..

We (Gnome Packaging Project) Just discovered Mandrake has done the horrid thing and renamed a lot of their packages, ie. gtk+ and gtk+-devel are in mandrake called "libgtk+-1.2 libgtk+-devel-1.2" and this is now making quite a problem for us with specfiles.

Currently we are working on getting a way to use %if / %else /  cases for the different distributions that have fould things up in this way, but until then mandrake users would probably want to comment out the "BuildRequires: gtk+-devel"  from the specfile. 

I've been told mandrake did this so they can have gtk+ 1.2 and 2.0 snapshot installed at the same time, but I'm still not happy with it  * swears a lot beneath his breath and starts to.... * 

Ach well, I'll post yet another updated specfile here when I know exactly what and how to work around mandrakes broken-ness.	

> Also, someone mentioned that Ximian/Red Hat/Mandrake are now using the
> "Epoch" keyword, and that xchat rpms are being seen as older than theirs
> even when the version is higher. Would adding in "Epoch: 1" be a good
> thing to do?
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Posted By:     Spider <spider@bahnhof.se>