Re: Package Question

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On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> Before do the work I want to make sure I'm not
> breaking violating any package rules. I did look
> around and didn't see anything addressing this.
>

Personally, I'm not a fan of it. But it does happen quite a lot...

> If this is kosher, are there any examples of other
> packages doing this...
>

PackageKit did this for Fedora 25 to include libdnf for the
PackageKit-Dnf backend before libdnf was introduced into the
distribution in Fedora 26.



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