2008/7/9 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wednesday 09 July 2008 12:12:27 pm Dale Stimson wrote: >> [snip] >> Something I would like to see standard in RPM is for the default for >> installation of source files from a .src.rpm file to be changed from >> %{_sourcedir} >> to >> %{_sourcedir}/%{name}-%{version} >> >> (The above example assumes the current definition of _sourcedir, >> which the suggested implementation below proposes be changed). [snip] >> %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version} >> >> I've done this in my .rpmmacros file for a long time and am happy with it. > Been doing something similar myself for ages, but also dropping the spec file > in with the source files. A directory full of specs and a directory full of > sources for umpteen different packages is dumb. This breaks doing build-from-tarball, because until the spec is parsed, the version is unknown. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list