On Thursday, 13 July 2006, at 14:54:16 (-0400), Jonathan Reed wrote: > Because adding it as a %Source ensures that it will be in the SRPM, > as opposed to simply listing it as a BuildPreReq, which requires > that you go get it from somewhere, and makes rpmbuild --rebuild a > trivial one-step process. ...and creates a new, independent, unversioned copy of these macros in every SRPM you create or build. Or that anyone else builds. That's even worse than putting them in the spec file. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Love?! What does *love* have to do with *marriage*?!" -- Peter Jurasik (Ambassador Londo Mollari), "Babylon Five" _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
