From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: [PATCH] add git.spec and adapt Makefile for RPM build Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 20:06:50 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: References: <200505021858.j42Iw4M1029427@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Chris Wright , Kay Sievers , git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 02 21:03:02 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSgAW-0001x3-9d for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 21:01:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261697AbVEBTH0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:07:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261710AbVEBTH0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:07:26 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([212.17.55.49]:9858 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261697AbVEBTHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:07:19 -0400 Received: from sheen.jakma.org (sheen.jakma.org [212.17.55.53]) by hibernia.jakma.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j42J6llg029689; Mon, 2 May 2005 20:06:54 +0100 X-X-Sender: paul@sheen.jakma.org To: Horst von Brand In-Reply-To: <200505021858.j42Iw4M1029427@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mail-Followup-To: paul@hibernia.jakma.org X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/861/Sat Apr 30 10:28:52 2005 on hibernia.jakma.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 May 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > And yes, I've seen quite a few packages autogenerating the spec > file. As a result, you /can't/ build the package from pristine > sources, you have to unpack and configure to get enough for > building. For me that just isn't acceptable, as it completely > misses the point of RPM. I think maybe you're missing the point of what is sometimes known as a 'make dist' target. (eg in autoconf type build systems). > (You can go "rpmbuild -ta whatever-2.3.1.tar.bz2" if the tarball is set up > correctly, your idea prevents that). Then the tarball wasn't of distributable (ie end-user buildable) source. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: "Now this is a totally brain damaged algorithm. Gag me with a smurfette." -- P. Buhr, Computer Science 354