Re: Where to put spec files...

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On 20 Jan 2002, Ross Golder wrote:

> > 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. :)

Isn't rpm -tb supposed to use <package>.spec, which doesn't exist until
executing configure? Sounds like a chicken and egg problem here... (Sorry
if I'm wrong, my comment is based on antique knowledge of redhat rpm)

Abel