> Greetings,
>
> What do you think of the following proposal:
>
> I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce
> duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2)
> format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and
> debian source files.
>
> Included in these tarballs add .spec and .dsc files together with
> the original .tar.gz package and .diff.gz files. Then everybody
> interested can build source/binary files for their own preferred
> distribution using the same source files!!
I don't see how it's simplified for someone who doesn't use both rpm and
deb; how can they test it?
For that matter, where can they find current documentation for building
RPMs? Forget distributed documentation; it was in RHL 3.0.3 but not since.
Forget Maximum-RPM - it's obsolete. I've downloaded in in the past week
and seen with my own eyes.*.
Speaking of my eyes; they just popped out of my head. I picked up my
keyboard and under it
under it there was a thumping great spider, about 7cm across. Fortunately
almost all spiders here are harmless, and this was one of them.
Sorry for the distraction; back to our regular program.
Some tarballs do carry spec files, and rpm seems to support them there:
[summer@possum summer]$ rpm --help | grep -3i tar
--root <dir> - use <dir> as the top level directory
-b<stage> <spec>
-t<stage> <tarball> - build package, where <stage> is one of:
p - prep (unpack sources and apply patches)
l - list check (do some cursory checks on %files)
c - compile (prep and compile)
--
--rmsource - remove sources and spec file when done
--sign - generate PGP/GPG signature
--buildroot <dir> - use <dir> as the build root
--target=<platform>+ - build the packages for the build targets
platform1...platformN.
--nobuild - do not execute any stages
--timecheck <secs> - set the time check to <secs> seconds (0
disables)
[summer@possum summer]$
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John Summerfield
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