From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:27:02 -0800 Message-ID: <436645D6.3050506@zytor.com> References: <43652934.8000308@zytor.com> <7vy84ajl4c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051031064105.GV8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <43663EEA.5050102@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chris Wright , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 31 17:30:43 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWcWB-0003m5-HM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:28:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932454AbVJaQ1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:27:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932456AbVJaQ1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:27:41 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:20176 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932454AbVJaQ1k (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:27:40 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9VGR2Cx030215 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:27:03 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Now, I'm not certain how happy RPM would be with having one source RPM > generate multiple binary RPM's, so we might have problems with some stupid > RPM rules, but I think we should really do this. There's always going to > be some extra feature that not everybody needs, but that it would be silly > to have its own project for. > RPM is more than happy to do this. It's a standard feature of RPM. The current RPM, however, is structured in a way that makes it somewhat painful, as it depends a little too much on wildcards. -hpa