On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:27:14AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > At one time I created a "make rpm" target for e2fsprogs: > > e2fsprogs/Makefile.in: > > +rpm: > + sh contrib/build-rpm Makefile targets like these are useful for developers who are mucking around in a development tree, and just want a package of their current tree; the kernel targets are great for that. End-users should prefer that the tarball contain a working distro-neutral spec file, so that they can just invoke rpmbuild: rpmbuild -ta e2fsprogs-1.36.tar.gz Unfortunately, naming conventions and macros differ just enought between the various RPM-based distros that plenty of packages have instead a foo.spec.in. In e2fsprogs-1.36, the only configure macro is the version number, @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@. :-( IMHO, one should ship a .spec file with the correct version number, or at least a macro conditional that allows the user to do the following: rpmbuild -ta --define 'version 1.36' e2fsprogs-1.36.tar.gz Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
