# BAD example. See below for correct usage
%if "%{?fedora}" > "7"
<something which should work in F-8, F-9, F-10, F-11, etc.>
%endif
In rawhide/devel (which will become F-10 eventually), %{fedora} is 10, so above comparison will be "10" > "7" and evaluate to FALSE. So the something will only work for F-8 and F-9, and ignored from F-10 on.
So your package will end up suddenly having problems again in F-10 which were fixed years ago by inserting that conditional, or develop new problems suddenly. Please avoid that by fixing your comparisons to look like this:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 7
<something which does work in F-8, F-9, F-10, F-11, etc.>
%endif
Reports generated by string-comparison-check.sh.
Summary for 2008-07-07 ---------------------- devel: 2 string comparisons in 1 spec files F-9: 25 string comparisons in 18 spec files F-8: 52 string comparisons in 31 spec files F-7: 95 string comparisons in 58 spec files
Note the two sudden drops: 2008-07-06 the script was changed to ignore a few false positives, and 2008-07-07 Tom Callaway did a mass-fix.
| package pkgdb link | spec files in CVS | owner/maintainers | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ikvm | devel | F-9 | F-8 | F-7 | pfj |
pfj: ikvm