[rabbitmq-discuss] esl-erlang support from rpms

Mon Feb 4 17:38:44 GMT 2013

On 04/02/13 17:20, Jason McIntosh wrote:
> Is there any way to get a set of RPM's that consider the esl-erlang
> libraries acceptable as an erlang library?  Should just be a
> erlang|esl-erlang config for the rpm spec file.  The esl-erlang is the
> one I'm finding on the main erlang home page.  It has the advantage of
> having HIPE support working by default on CentOS/RHEL systems.

When we last looked at this we found that it wasn't so simple. The RPM 
docs say to use "or" rather than "|":

http://rpm5.org/docs/rpm-guide.html#id3102747

...but that seems to break completely on RPM 4 systems. (You end up with 
an RPM which depends on "erlang" and "esl-erlang" and "or".)

So is the "|" a Debianism there, or does it really work for RPMs?

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware