>>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: PM> macroized into something like %cmake_setup, %cmake_build and PM> %cmake_install? Okay, it requires somebody to actually do it and PM> sanction but... Well, I try but to be honest I thought cmake was fairly cleaned up. And yes, I agree that to as much of a degree as possible, the macros for various buildsystems should follow a basic %configure/%make_build/%make_install pattern. PM> Taking the idea a bit further, if everything were to follow such PM> %foo_setup, %foo_build, %foo_install then at least in simple and/or PM> well-behaved cases you could do the whole setup-build-install thing PM> with one spec line wher just the type varies: PM> %autobuild foo Now look here. Usually I'm the one who proposes things like this, and usually everyone tells me I'm insane and that the RPM people would never go for it. And sometimes I do actually try implementing those things, where I generally run into some minor thing that RPM proper would need to add, but indeed the RPM folks aren't interested. Probably because I'm not providing the needed patch to RPM, whose code simply hurts my brain. But if Panu's going to propose crazy things, too, then I'm going to consider that ample justification and drag out some of those old ideas I have stashed away. But back to reality, I wish there were enough packages which actually worked without needing to tweak something or pass extra flags or change some permissions at the end of install or whatever to make this actually something which would be generally useful. Because even if the super simple thing works at some point in time, upstream is eventually going to put out an update that requires you to tweak something, and then you'd have to delete your pretty autobuild call and do back to the old school way of doing things. Now if RPM let you have multiple %build or %install sections and just concatenated them, then you could have %autobuild and then later an %install section that removes that stuff you didn't want installed or does that recursive permission change..... But it doesn't. _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
