So, this tool looks promising to my employer. What sort of help do you need? Don On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:01:33PM -0400, Chris Evich wrote to To fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx: > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Evich <cevich redhat com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Hopefully this is the right mailing list :) > >> Project rpmbuilder aims to provide a template-based approach to packaging. In > >> other words, it removes responsibility from developer to produce an RPM spec > >> file the "right" way. Instead, the package developer just feeds in his > >> project's particulars, and a template-driven engine puts the pieces together > >> and spits out a "sane" RPM and SRPM. > >> https://fedorahosted.org/rpmbuilder > > Personally I would rather see Fedora heavily invest in reducing all > > the overhead that currently exists in packaging and putting more > > intelligence into the core of the system, rather than generating spec > > files. Editing spec files is already painful enough; editing > > generated ones sounds even less fun. Essentially if the build system > > knows about things like the Ruby gem specs, Python setup.py, Java's > > Maven, freedesktop.org autotools-based desktop packages, etc., then > > you don't need to autogenerate a lot of spec boilerplate. > Actually, I completely agree, and this project is intended to address the > hand-editing you describe. The templates rpmbuilder uses will be shipped > _with it_, I'm not suggesting yet-another-thing-to-edit-when-packaging :) > Then, different templates may be specified at packaging time depending on the > "thing" to be packaged. > For example, I could envision a template for packaging python "stuff" that > uses a setup.py when resolving a python-rpmbuilder template. In other words, > it should be as simple as: > # rpmbuilder --mode=python --pkgname=MyRPMPackageName > --version=1.2.3 --release=4 --sourcedir=. --destdir=. > The result would be, ./MyRPMPackageName-1.2.4-4.noarch.rpm and/or > ./MyRPMPackageName-1.2.4-4.noarch.srpm are written to CWD. > Though this could easily extend to other scripting languages / build > environments as well. All that's needed is someone to develop a template once. -- Don Harper, RHCE email: duck@xxxxxxxxxxxx Just a systems kinda guy... http://www.duckland.org OK, the joke is over. Bring back the Constitution. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wys
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