Re: Where to put spec files...

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:11, 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)

Sometimes, although ideally the .spec.in files should be transformed to
.spec files at make dist time, so that this would work properly.  But it
doesn't matter if there are multiple spec files in the tarball.  RPM
can't sort out which one to use.
	Greg

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