On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:41 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> redhat-rpm-config defines RH/Fedora build policy/configuration. Rpm itself > >> doesn't give a damn where that configuration comes from and is fully > >> functional without it. It's just that rpm upstream build "policy" doesn't > >> match Fedora's. > > > > But Fedora's rpm(-build) RPM should really require redhat-rpm-config. > > Well, redhat-rpm-config is required to build "Fedora compliant" packages > (whatever that means) but it is not required to build packages generally. > > A semi-reasonable middle-ground might be adding a virtual provide such as > "system-rpm-config" to redhat-rpm-config and have rpm-build depend on > that. It's not correct either as rpmbuild is functional without extra > configuration, but it at least leaves users the option of replacing the > Fedora build policy with something else. Another option might be to have fedora-packager require redhat-rpm-config, which is closer to the correct requires and probably what people expect. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
