Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Stephen Warren > <s-t-rhbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm curious why the packaging guidelines aren't more specific re: the > > requirements for the BuildRoot tag. > > > > To my mind, the BuildRoot is a purely internal "implementation detail" > > of the build process, and no package should really depend on any > > specific detail of the BuildRoot value/location. Nodz. > There's a huge list of things like this that are basically just > copy&paste from the wiki. I think the right medium-term approach is > to generate .spec files from a file like .spec.in as part of the build > process. I've been working on and off on the Makefile.common and koji > modifications necessary for this approach, and I hope to have an > updated version to post within a week or two. Please don't autogenerate .spec through autoconf or some such! The .spec /controls/ running the configuration process, not the other way around. It contains distribution specific configuration (local patches, use self-knitted configuration, installation paths, ...), it is /not/ part of the upstream package. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
