Re: spec file maintencehey

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 23 Jul 2001 23:40:22 -0700, josh lucas wrote:
> This is somewhat of a dumb question I know but would I be comparing the
> spec files against the spec.in file?

Not dumb at all.  Some of these modules have a package.spec.in, and
others have a package.spec.  The only difference between these two is
that the .spec.in files will have the version number replaced by
@VERSION    Everything else should be identical.  
	Greg

> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again!  I've been doing some serious hacking on the spec files, and I
> > think the ones that I have are in pretty decent shape.  There are a
> > whole bunch of these, and clearly I haven't got enough time to work on
> > all of them all the time.  What I'd like is get some volunteers to do
> > the following:
> > 1. Pick a module to work on.
> > 2. Get the spec file for that module from
> > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/plain-GNOME/SPECS/
> > 3. Get that module from CVS (anonymous or otherwise, it won't matter).
> > 4. Compare the plain-GNOME spec file with the one in CVS, and "merge"
> > the plain-GNOME changes into the one in CVS.
> > 5. Create a patch that will apply cleanly to CVS.
> > 6. submit the patch via bugzilla, and cc me on that.
> > 
> > Some of these could be fleshed out a bit more than I've done here, with
> > specific instructions on how to create patches and such, if somebody
> > wanted to do that.  So, who's going to volunteer to do some of these?
> > Oh, I suppose you want a list too, huh?  ok, here's a quick dump of
> > these things.