On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Alexander Neundorf
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Somehow I don't really understand how a source RPM or source deb generator
> would make sense for CPack.
> E.g. a source deb is the plain source package, plus an optional patch, plus a
> file which describes how to build it.
> IMO the patch would be always non-existent if generated with CPack (since this
> generates the package directly from the original source tree), so the only
> thing left would be to generate the spec file.
> I guess for a source RPM it's similar ?

It'd provide a place to list the build dependencies, for example.

Olaf
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