From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:53:54 +0100
Message-ID: <1393887234.4058.160.camel@Solace>
References: <1393858780-11628-1-git-send-email-george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
	<20140303162358.GA23543@aepfle.de> <5314AF0C.6080708@eu.citrix.com>
	<20140303172336.GA26596@aepfle.de> <1393867623.4058.144.camel@Solace>
	<5314BC1D.1020403@eu.citrix.com>
	<21268.49941.946044.324676@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5989175197056764551=="
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org>
In-Reply-To: <21268.49941.946044.324676@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

--===============5989175197056764551==
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Vv1V6YoWS6HMRMP19rK+"

--=-Vv1V6YoWS6HMRMP19rK+
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On lun, 2014-03-03 at 17:59 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" targe=
t"):

> > Ah, you mean, it *also* counts as one of those packages for dependency=
=20
> > tracking?
> >=20
> > I can definitely see how that could be useful.
>=20
> Quite.
>=20
Indeed. :-)

> > Any opinions, Ian / Ian?
>=20
> I'm no expert on rpm.  Is there a way to get the desirable effect
> (satisfying dependencies) without the undesirable one (unexpectedly
> deinstalling the sysadmin's other xen packages) ?
>=20
I think something like "Provides: xxx" can help with this, at least on
Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#Other_tags

As soon as rpmball builds for me (see the other e-mail I just sent),
I'll be happy to help experimenting with it.

Regards,
Dario

--=20
<<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)


--=-Vv1V6YoWS6HMRMP19rK+
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEABECAAYFAlMVCAIACgkQk4XaBE3IOsTdhgCglvMrMKQhhxXnzk5v6kCxQ3Ic
w/AAnjtfKH2oZeOkt1AqB3tiKnmiYbyt
=9mQP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-Vv1V6YoWS6HMRMP19rK+--


--===============5989175197056764551==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

--===============5989175197056764551==--