On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:21, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:48:00PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Greg KH wrote: >> > >> > > Kay Sievers (11): >> > > rename configure.in -> configure.ac >> > > delete spec file >> > >> > Why delete the spec file? Don't you want to keep it for people who >> > would like to build an RPM? >> >> Do people build rpms out of tarballs that aren't coming from their >> distro anymore? > > Sure they do. If you've got an RPM-based system, and you want to > install a package version that's more recent than the one bundled in > your distribution (or if your distribution doesn't include the package > at all), then you'd want to build your own RPM. > >> I didn't realise this, and can put it back, but it's >> one more thing to forget to bump the version number on :( > > It's not urgent. You're going to be making other changes too... new > output formats and replacing libusb, right? So include the spec file > again when you do the next release. Having a spec file in the repo needs configure.ac pre-processing to create a proper spec file to use, to find out where to install the files. As an example, SUSE puts the ids file in /usr/share/ Fedora in /usr/share/hwdata/ (not even shipped with the usbutil package), other distros put it in /usr/share/misc/. Having multiple files installed, because we didn't find the right place, may break other packages build which search for them at build time, like udev-extras. There is really not a good chance to get this stuff right, without using the spec file that comes with the original package from the distro that is used. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
