Re: Introductions

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:47:09PM -0100, James Ogley wrote:
> >
> > Thought I'd send a quick email to the list, partly by way of
> > introduction, but also as a ping to see if anything's really happening
> > with the GPP (the latest news on the site is for GNOME 1.4 packages!).
>
> Well, then "pong" :-)
>
> > [...]
> > My mind turned to the GPP because I just did some work on Tomboy, adding
> > the functionality to it's .spec.in file to allow the .spec that results
> > from auto* to be used with the format rpmbuild -ba --with suse
> > tomboy.spec to build with SuSE prefix etc as opposed to Red Hat/Fedora
> > specifications.  Seemed to me that the same rpm-fu could be applied
> > across the board to GNOME to make it RPM-able on multiple distros
> > straight out of FTP, any thoughts?
>
> I personally don't like to much magic in the spec-files themselves. I
> prefere a simple %configure %make %makeinstall
>
> Whenever you want to build with certain requirements you can use the
> approptiate rpmmacros file.

I disagree - users building rpms themselves WILL forget to do this and
build non-functional rpms.

> ciao
> Christian

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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