On Feb 25, 2005 14:18 -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > 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 Patches greatfully accepted, as you know a lot more about RPM than I. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/
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