On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> "VS" == Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> writes: > > VS> s/RPM/rpmbuild/, and in addition to running shell scripts it is in a > VS> state where it can unpack common archive types and apply patches? > > RPM can do that, but you should not assume how. It could link in > libraries to do that without actually installing any executables it > could call. Or it could call things which are not in $PATH. Sure (well except that it's still rpmbuild, not rpm...). I wasn't making any assumptions how it does that, actually pretty much the opposite. I just listed its features/state that can be assumed so that people won't start adding build dependencies e.g. for tar and gzip whenever they have a tgz source tarball unpacked by %setup or one for patch when they have patches to apply with %patch etc. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
