On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 19:13 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 11/14/2013 05:45 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:56 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >> - Is this a bug in redhat-rpm-config/Python/RPM/Fedora? > > > > Yes. People hit this _constantly_ in a lot of ways. Like "why am I not > > getting debuginfo packages". The theory is that you might want to build > > with some other set of macros, which is why rpmbuild doesn't just > > require r-r-c. > > > > I think this is foolish, and that we should just fix rpmbuild: if you > > wanted some other set of macros, start by rebuilding rpm to require > > something other than r-r-c. The counter-argument is - and I find this > > completely baffling - that it's easier to replace packages than rebuild > > them, so that instead rpmbuild should Require: system-rpm-config and > > then r-r-c happens to be what provides that by default. Which, sure, > > that's also a thing we could do. > > Well, technically rpmbuild does NOT require redhat-rpm-config to > function, building "Fedora compliant" packages does. Anyway, I got tired > of this argument in March, so Fedora >= 20 has this: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpm.git/commit/?id=6fb2566e2d6d8b2e29e9f671bf9f157de25e9908 Awesome, thanks! - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
