[Rpm-maint] filenames for multiple OS's

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 13:42 -0500, Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> I have a couple RPM packages I’ve made which I have to rebuild for for
> CentOS 3/4/5, i386 and 64 bit versions (free RedHat clones). They
> rebuild fine on the different OS’s, but all i386 RPMs end up being
> named the same thing, same with all x86_64 RPMs. There is nothing in
> the RPM name to signify what OS it has been built for.

Fedora has a custom macroset to provide this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag

RHEL 5 might also have it implemented, but don't quote me on that.

~spot