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
