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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458685 --- Comment #8 from R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-08-15 13:05:17 EDT --- > euh... since when the spec file should be in the tarball ?? ummm --- since forever? rpmbuild -ta tarball.tar.gz with works just fine when the .spec file is there. This is a feature of rpmbuild and has been for a very long time. This rpmbuild feature exists and a .spec file can live in a distributed tarball, because it permits a 'single point of truth' ("SPOT"). See: The Practice of Programming, Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 1999 at p. 239 Cited at, eg: http://press.samedi-studios.com/publications/2004/jones2004pl4li/jones2004pl4li.pdf > Single Point of Truth[30] If a single application has more than one > description of the same information, then keeping these different > descriptions from conflicting is difficult. The reason why such conflicts exist > comes from the lack of ability to express the information in a single place. > This may oc- cur either because two or more implementation languages are used and are not easily cross-callable or the one language is not powerful enough to state the same truth only once. This is an example of the lack of a language (or languages) ability to capture the information of a domain. > For example, in the Press Pot Java annotation system[23], a single file main- tains information describing bytecodes. By generating code from this descrip- tion language to both C and Java, Press Pot is able to keep the semantic description always in sync in both the Java front-end and the C back-end. As another example, in C programs, it is difficult to express a data file format in a single declaration and from that description drive both serialization and deserialization without using some sort of description language. From a description language, serializers and deserializers can be generated and consistency insured. ======================================= -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review
