On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 06:40 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > > On the other hand... Why do we ship the .spec file in the first > > place? Is Fedora, or any other distribution for that matter, > > using it as-is? Or is it meant to be just for developers' > > convenience? > > > > Personally, I'd be happy having to maintain a single build > > system and leaving downstream packaging to distributions. But > > maybe that's just a consequence of my background in Debian > > packaging :) > > We do actually share the spec file between RHEL and Fedora with local changes > largely only for changelog and adding patches. I love the way it works for > libvirt because it distributes the burden of maintaining packaging among the > whole team (at least those employed by redhat). Especially when we needed to > build for RHEL5 up to latest Fedora. > > It also allows for 'make rpm' which is handy for a whole bunch of reasons, > especially for new contributors on fedora/rhel who want to test a bug fix > without having to figure out the proper configure invocation to get a working > setup. Very well then. Thanks for explaining! Cheers. -- Andrea Bolognani Software Engineer - Virtualization Team -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list