Re: Where to put spec files...

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:01, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 11:47, Ross Golder wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 16:20, Jens Finke wrote:
> > > Just one note: Do we want to include a spec file in the tarball to let
> > > people do a rpm -tb foo.tar.gz? Or should we just point them to srpms?
> > > 
> > 
> > Absolutely, positively 'rpm -tb foo.tar.gz'. SRPMs are a pita.
> 
> What's a pain about SRPMS?  Instead of rpm -tb, you do rpm --rebuild... 
> I really am curious...

OK, didn't know about '--rebuild', but why go to extra lengths to
distribute SRPMS, when the tarballs themselves would be perfectly
adequate. I guess what I mean is, I'd rather download a tarball
containing a specfile than a specfile containing a tarball, if you catch
my drift. :)

--
Ross