On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:24:12PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters "--with" and "--without" > that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. > Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those work and how > they interact with a spec file? > > I want to be able to easily switch an option between these two states: > · off by default but can be enabled with "--with" > · on by default but can be disabled with "--without" > What's a good way to code that in the spec? They are (IMHO) very confusing to implement. However have a look at a the libvirt spec file for a working example: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libvirt.git/tree/libvirt.spec Also there's a bug open to make these flags work from 'fedpkg local': https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820596 > According to the Packaging Guidelines we're not supposed to use those > parameters when building "the source RPM to be submitted", because they > somehow get "serialized" into the source package. I don't understand > this, because I don't submit any source packages. Yeah I don't understand this either. I didn't know it was possible to submit an SRPM directly (except for scratch builds), and if there is it doesn't sound desirable. > The source package gets built on a Koji server when I run "fedpkg > build", and I don't know of a way to pass any options to that > process. There isn't .. and shouldn't be, since you'd want 'fedpkg build' to build exactly one RPM variant. However for 'fedpkg local' these flags could be pretty useful, see above. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
