Re: Where to put spec files...

[Roy-Magne Mo <rmo sunnmore net>]

On su , 2002-01-20 at 22:11, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> 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)

The spec file is created during make dist from the spec.in. 

The redhat spec-file should be left in the tar-file so one can build a
rpm directly from the tar file. Possibly softlinked from the package
directory. As the redhat specfile also works on mandrake, this will be
used by most people.

If suse decides to name their gnome packages other than what gnome does,
this should be corrected on their side. 

-- 
Roy