William A. Rowe, Jr. said: > So... is it unreasonable in README.RPM to point the user to obtain the > current httpd.spec/httpd.in from /dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.55-rpm-src.tar.gz > which would be grabbed from svn httpd/package/rpm/, and drop it into the > unpacked httpd-2.0.55 source tarball, in order to package?
I would say yes for two reasons, firstly in the RPM world this is the norm: rpmbuild -tb httpd-2.0.55.tar.gz Introducing "special" build instructions means a lot of time wasted while the user tries to figure out why the expected behaviour doesn't work. Secondly the httpd.spec file contains version specific information (the version number, the MMN, etc) that would be both a serious pain to maintain separately by a packager and a serious pain to tie up with the required source by a person building an RPM. Both RPM and PKG are done with simple scripts, separating them from the tarball turns a simple exercise into a complex one. Regards, Graham --
