On 11/15/2013 05:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 11/14/2013 06:13 PM, 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
I haven't tried, but in my understanding, this change renders it
impossible to use Fedora's rpm to build non-Fedora rpms
Not impossible, just a bit harder. Which is the other reason I resisted
the change for quite some time. You now need to replace
redhat-rpm-config with some other package providing system-rpm-config to
get around this.
- Panu -
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