On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 23:54 -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > Would you guys be interested in crafting one spec that works on both Fedora > and Mandriva?
Unfortunately there are a few differences between the two which make this usually impractical. We use different release macros, and some slightly different conventions (Fedora keeps changelogs in their spec files and we don't, for instance). Fedora specs will usually build in Mandriva with a special macro compatibility file in /etc/rpm/macros.d, but we can't use that for official packages in our repos, they have to match our standards. So I don't think that would be practical. We can certainly keep the spec files very similar, though - as I mentioned, this is actually already the case for several packages in MDV, where we keep our packages generally in sync with Fedora patches etc. Christopher, is there somewhere in SVN or something where I can easily keep an eye on the Fedora spec? The current Mandriva spec is always available in MDV SVN. -- adamw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
