Re: binary packages to include specs

[John Summerfield]

> 
> Even if the .spec files _were_ installed with every package, the
> 1 in 100000 users that look at 1-5 out of the 2000 .spec files
> that would be installed, would then have to get some src.rpm code
> likely to get going anyway.  After they've learned what they
> could from the spec file (about 15 seconds worth) they would have
> little use for them anymore.  .spec files are not documentation
> on how to build packages.  The HOWTO is a start, and the book
> Maximum RPM is a finish.  The book is free download from rpm.org.

When last I looked, Maximum RPM was seriously out of date; it applies to rpm 
2.x and 3 is very different, and presumably 4.0 will make obsolete anything 
anyone's writing/written for 3.

Mike
Just what's in a src.rpm that's so useful that is NOT in the spec file?





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