Bug 1386241

Summary: Document RHEL 6/7 incompatibilities
Product: Red Hat Software Collections Reporter: Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component: doc-Packaging_GuideAssignee: Petr Kovar <pkovar>
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Version: rh-thermostat16CC: jhradile
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Description Vít Ondruch 2016-10-18 13:23:22 UTC
Description of problem:
There are some well know incompatibilities between packages for RHEL7 and RHEL6. It would be nice to have them documented somewhere.

1. %license macro

The %license macro is available on Fedora and on RHEL7, but AFAIK, it is not available on RHEL6. The possible workaround is to declare the %license macro for RHEL6 as follows (can somebody please confirm?):

%{!?_licensedir:%global license %%doc}

2. Missing -runtime dependencies

By design, the scl-utils should autognerate requires on metapackage -runtime. This works fine on RHEL7, but due to limitations of older RPM in RHEL6 [1], the dependency on -runtime package must be explicitly specified [2] in each package.




[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075066
[2] http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/rpms/rubygem-rack/commit/?h=rhscl-2.3-rh-ror42-rhel-7&id=49942e7fac5f2a317f6ef2fd9b816ac1a5ad958e

Comment 1 Vít Ondruch 2016-10-18 13:32:16 UTC
I proposed %license macro for scl-utils in bug 1386246. That would remove the need for 1st bullet.