Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > A couple of pieces. The dist target has assumes git-tar-tree is in the > > path. Making it so you have to have git installed to build the rpm.
> Yes. Maybe we could relax that requirement by using "./git-tar-tree" or > something? That still requires that you have _built_ git to do the rpm, > but at least you won't have had to install it. I don't see a problem here. Sure, you need git to build git, so place it in Build-requires: Need to install the binary to build the next from source, that's all. Just like gcc ;-) [...] > > The man pages are not built. The build dependencies do not call out > > the tools necessary to build the man pages. > Most people don't have asciidoc, and I'm not sure we want to require it. > Maybe we could have a separate "make man-rpm" target for that? Would have to be a requirement for building anyway. There is a (not really nice) SRPM at <http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~terjeros/rpms/asciidoc/>. Will see to clean it up. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
