On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:34:53PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ZJ> rpm does not allow reading that file from the tarball, because it > ZJ> wants it to be available for %include when the spec file is parsed. > ZJ> That's why I put the in git directly. > > This one of several reasons why using %include in a Fedora specfile is > such a terrible idea. Please just don't do it. It renders the spec > unusable unless you have a git checkout or the srpm, and thus makes a > bunch of things that you could do from, say, the nightly specfile > tarball (https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz) > rather more difficult. It's either %include or a fairly big copy&paste. The first solution is awkward, and the second one is ... awkward. But yeah, maybe we should bite the bullet and do the copy&paste. A bit sad. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/SA6HF2ZI4VVZJ7X766TCZLM2RKYV6WUH/
