On 02/17/2012 09:16 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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. Following up, I like the suggestion you made and I wonder what the next step would be? Jon. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
