On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:16:55 +0900 John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 08:20 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > >> Jeremy Katz wrote: > >>> * Don't carry the RPM spec file in the repository; have it just in the > >>> packaging repo instead. > >> Why? > > > > Bit duplication and having to sync changes across between where the > > packages are built (which requires the spec file) and the upstream repo > > is a bit annoying at times > > > > Jeremy > > If I were to pull it from git, I'd be fairly put out to find I didn't > have the build instructions as embodied in the spec file. I see the spec > file as the primary "scripts used to control compilation and > installation of the executable." It only runs 'make' and 'make install', so the Makefile(s) are actually the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. What is useful from the spec file is the BuildRequires, but we could fix that by having a ./configure script that checks the environment we are about to build on. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat / Westford, MA
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