Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Source RPMs should have ARCH set to src (Issue #2601)

2023-08-08 Thread Neil Hanlon
> Actually, srpm are _almost_ arch-independent. I know of two issues: the ARCH > tag, and BuildRequires. But Fedora packaging guidelines actually forbid > archful BuildRequires > (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_buildrequires_and_isa, > "SRPMs need to be architecture

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Source RPMs should have ARCH set to src (Issue #2601)

2023-08-07 Thread Neil Hanlon
Agreed with @keszybz here. The tooling can (and should) be updated. If anything, it should be done to prove that building SRPMs on different platforms is indeed deterministic. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2601#issuec

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: allow clamping username and permissions for source RPMs (Issue #2604)

2023-08-04 Thread Neil Hanlon
when building a source RPM, the username and filesystem permissions from the build host are preserved and end up propagating to a machine you extract them onto, e.g.. To be able to reproduce SRPMs, we should have predictable conventions for the permissions and ownership of files. The idea we ha