On Wed, Jul 18, 2007, Thomas Lotterer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >> On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > I also thought we just recently had this discussion: there is no
> > distribution-neutral packaging, not even for source packages, isn't
> > it?
> >
> Yep, see http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/0767.html
> A SRPM can only serve the "Uniformity" group.
>
> Still, a SRPM is at least a little bit useful for rpm5 because it serves
> one environment which some may see as a general reference point. I
> question the benefit for functional tests because the SRPM will only
> help lusers which are willing and able to transport their specific
> problem to this general environment. My support experience tells me the
> number of those users which match these criteria is negligible. But it
> doesn't hurt to roll a SRPM, so let's do it.
> [...]
Jeff tries to make the rpm.spec distribution-neutral. Once this is done
I'll use this rpm.spec to add support for rolling a SRPM in the cron-job.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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