On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:59:14 -0500, Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:08:33PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > > In a nutshell, i'd like to hack jhbuild to build tarballs and rpms, > > but that would require pulling spec files for each tarball from a > > predictable location in CVS. > > I actually keep my spec file in CVS for my projects, though some > seems to consider this "useless" if not bad practice. > > > It would also require someone with knowledge/experience in writing > > spec files to volunteer to write up-to-date spec files for at least > > some small number of modules, and get them in CVS, so that I could > > test them, and ideally volunteer to help me with problems as they crop > > up. > > Problem is to have portable spec files, all major RPM distro seems > to have their prefered guidelines and tricks, Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention that. Certainly our experience at Ximian was that you needed separate spec files per distro; I'm not sure the best way to maintain that in CVS, but it is something I had hoped you guys had considered. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
