Am Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:03:07 +0900 schrieb Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:20:51AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Am Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:09:02 +0800 > > schrieb Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>: > > > Yeah, this is one case. > > > > > > Someone may also download a kexec-tools tarball from internet, > > > and then want to build a RPM. Even git isn't installed in his > > > system, the RPM could be built. > > > > Building the tarball is maintainer work. > > The maintainer creates a "clean" tarball to distribute it. > > Don't tell me that the maintainer has no git installed. > > > > End users fetch the generated tarball to build/distribute > > kexec-tools. AFAIK the rpm spec file is generated and only > > available in the generated tarball. They don't need git. Only the > > maintainer which generates the distribution tarball needs git... > > There are many ways to obtain kexec-tools. > I'm really not very exited about requiring git to make a tarball. So, messing around in every Makefile with "dist +=" is better...? What about having a dist_file file in the top level directory? Thanks, //richard
