Re: Testing RPM build for "intltool" + other packages?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 02/11 2001 16:48 Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com> writes:
> > The included message is part of a recent discussion with one of the
> > authors of "intltool" (but it applies to many other packages, too.)
> > What are other people's view on this?
>
> The forwarded message doesn't really have enough context for me to
> figure out what's going on. What the proposal?
Well, I was complaining about the lack of RPM support in "intltool" and 
many other GNOME modules, too .spec files are included in more or less all 
source directories, but checking out, then building RPM in hardly ever 
works directly, in my experience. The problem is simply that the process 
isn't tested often enough, and I was told that in the case of "intltool" 
at least, the reason is that the maintainers don't use rpm, or (as far as 
I understand) any other package management system, themselves (a bit 
surprising to me as I think installing directly from source leads to much 
more trouble in the long term.) My response to that was that RPMs ought to 
be build regularly just the same, as the process is also a nice and simple 
way of testing the module's consistency. I was then asked for volunteers 
to the job. And since GNOMEhide from what I understand is or will be a 
collection of RPMs build quite often, and also because I'm assuming 
everyone on this list is using rpm, I thought it was appropriate to 
forward the request.

- Toralf