Re: Introductions

[Christian Lohmaier <cloph cup uni-muenchen de>]

Hi *,

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:04:39PM -0100, James Ogley wrote:
> > I disagree - users building rpms themselves WILL forget to do this and
> > build non-functional rpms.
> 
> Is it worth taking a middle ground, and providing versions of rpmmacros
> for different distros, rather than my original suggestion of doing it
> all in .spec?

Yes, definitely.

> And maybe compiling a list of where different distros install bits, eg:
> 
> SuSE prefix=/opt/gnome sysconfdir=/etc/opt/gnome (although this will be
> changing to /usr and /etc respectively apparently)

When providing such distro-specific rpmmacros, it should be documented
what these contain, so yes, such a list is good.

ciao
Chrsitian
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