On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 00:45 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Is it a packaging error if a src.rpm can only be expected to reliably > build inside mock/mach? IMO, yes, definitely - Package building/re-building must be deterministically reproduce the same results in both chroot'ed and non-chroot'ed environments. > If it is a packaging error, what would be the best course of action? IMO, if a package can't be rebuilt in a user environment it qualifies as broken and "not ready for release". > Some solutions include manually installing what you DO want to package That would be a packager's hack/resort to work around a broken package. > (what I have been doing), perhaps a bunch of configure switches telling > configure not to build all of the plugins you don't intend to package, > or telling rpm to ignore unpackaged files. Yes, this would be an approach upstream could choose to fix such issues. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
