On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:59:04AM +0100, otheus uibk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:18:38PM +0100, otheus uibk wrote: > > > Question 4: Where is the .spec file and why isn't it in the git repo? > > > (I apologize if the tone is harsh. I'm just a little shocked that a > > > RedHat-specific project doesn't have a .spec file). > > > > It's in Fedora. You can get it from here: > > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/virt-what.git/ > > > > The RHEL spec file is forked from this one, and you can get that from > > the RHEL sources: > > > > https://git.centos.org/summary/!rpms!virt-what.git > > > > If we put the spec file into the upstream tree, then that would favour > > RHEL over other distros that carry virt-what, incuding other RPM-based > > distros like SuSE. > > > > Fair enough. Then wouldn't the logical thing to be have a directory inside > the source repo where all spec files reside? It just seems silly to > maintain 3 different ... The problem is that upstream and packaging are different jobs. The RHEL packaging spec file (for example) doesn't follow the upstream release cadence at all. > Wait, what? There's an entire GIT meta-repository for only RPMs?? > *cries* Again, upstream != packaging. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
