Jon Masters (jcm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > I hope everyone is having a good day. Here in the Fedora ARM project, > we're having a great time overall, but we've run up against a familiar > foe in our preparation for Fedora 17 and rawhide: superfluous deps in > SPEC files. Today's example is a shell-escaped call to Ruby just to > determine some gcc flags for an unrelated package build, but that's just > today's example. There are many others, so some standard would help. OK, so how about: ... Scripting inside of spec files Inside of a spec file, sometimes it is necessary to call a programming or scripting language during %setup, %build, or %install. In Fedora, spec files may in general only use the following languages for this purpose: 1. Python 2. Perl 3. awk/sed Also, if your package already BuildRequires a specific scripting language (such as Ruby, or Tcl) as part of its normal compile process, it may also be called from the spec file. ... Bill -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
