On Thursdayen den 25 April 2002 19.37, Fran�ois Pons wrote:
> Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 07:44, Fran�ois Pons wrote:
> > > Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I tried with curl-7.9.6-1mdk.src.rpm from cooker but the same thing
> > > > happens. What can I do ? Is this the right way to update a package ?
> > >
> > > macros have changed, please upgrade all rpm stuff for that, or change
> > > to %configure instead, it could be enough (some other macros may fails
> > > ?).
> >
> > If it requires a certain level of rpm to compile, should not then that
> > level of rpm be listed in buildrequires? I ask this because I guess I'm
> > having trouble understanding this process. I've seen rpms that need a
> > certain something that's not in the spec, and the answer was "use
> > cooker". Okay, but if a package requires certain things, then those
> > certain things should be listed in the requires regardless, should they
> > not? I thought that was the whole purpose of having requires in the
> > first place.
>
> Macros are changing from rpm between various distribution, this was
> especially the case between a 7.0 to 8.0, between 8.1 and 8.2, there should
> be not too many changes so you can try without upgrading rpm (but with
> modifying the spec file).
>
> If we have to add such level, this will be done automatically problably and
> you have to get rpm of distribution requested all the time. This
> information is not maintained by maintainers most of the time currently but
> we can add it.

Not a single word on how to just add the nessesary macros?

-- 
Regards // Oden Eriksson

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