On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:49:19PM +0200, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 16:15:33 +0100 > Simone Caronni <negativo17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Everything is rebuilt every time there's the need to apply any change; > > while the docs are usually static for each release. With all the > > testing done for rawhide and the rebuilding of the same packages for > > RHEL 4/5/6 and Fedora 16 I lost a lot of time doing uploads for > > scratch builds and mock/koji rebuilds; so I would like to get away > > from this. Also RHEL 4 and 5 do not allow you to specify a separate > > BuildArch in a subpackage; which make "x86_64" pointless as an arch > > for a package containing PDF files. > > Then why not just make a --without doc option (or a %global switch) in > the spec file? Then the docs would be built by default, but you could > also skip the building of the docs when you are just working on the package. > The end user also has to download and install the new docs package everytime the main bacula package is updated when the -docs package is just a subpackage (instead of a separate package). I agree that having a separate package makes a lot of sense here. -Toshio
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