Re: Package Question

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Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/08/2018 06:21 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Is it a problem for a package to pull from two different
>> upstream tar balls? Basically have
>>
>> Source0:http://server.com/package1/package1.tar
>> Source1:http://server.com/package2/package2.tar
>>
>> Then I would, by hand, untar Source1 into Source0 directory.
> 
> That's fairly common.  I don't particularly like it, but if it's the way
> upstream ships things, there isn't much choice.

wine is an example of this. wine-staging is provided as a separate
tarball of patches that are applied before build.

rob

> 
>> If this is kosher, are there any examples of other
>> packages doing this...
> 
> glibc did that until Fedora 20.  We eventually split out the files in
> the tarball into individual source files, which was easy enough in our
> case (and the files were Fedora-specific anyway).
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
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