On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:33:13AM +0530, lakshminaras2002@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The cabal2spec program generates the template for the .spec file from the > .cabal file. Then the packager modifies certain values and thats about it. > The macros used in the template come from /etc/rpm/macros.ghc. There are > cases were there is a need to add some files not picked by the macros and > that has been done. Eg > [2]<http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-gtk/ghc-gtk.spec> Wouldn't it be more clear if cabal2spec generated the %files and %packages sections rather than using a really complicated macro? As a reviewer, I feel like there is no way to tell what the spec file is doing. I can't even tell which packages it's going to create unless I actually run rpmbuild and look at what files show up. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
