from the quill of Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> Starting from rpm-3.0.4-0.2mdk, the spec-helper package must be
> installed as a dependency of the rpm-build package.
[ snip ]
> The goal is to have vendor neutral spec files.
Woohoo! I love it. At one of my consulting gigs we use RPM on Solaris
exclusively to install aftermarkeet software. A lot of times I will
start the build process with either a RH but usually a Mandrake
SRPM/spec file. I always wind up removing the bzipping of man pages
(Solaris' man doesn't know bzip2).
But more than that, at this location, we use a "prefix" of /usr/local
rather that /usr as it is mandated that all "aftermarket" software be
placed in /usr/local. Along with the "spec-helper" initiative can we
mandate the use of %{_prefix} (or define another macro, if you like, at
the top of all spec files) anywhere /usr is being used?
> Example:
>
> %files
> /usr/man/man1/alias.1*
How about:
%{_prefix}/man/man1/alias.1*
Thots?
b.
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