On Mon, February 19, 2007 6:01 am, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > The reason for http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/win32-msi/ to > remain out-of-tree (and for goodness sakes, the reason to REMOVE the .pkg > and .rpm generation sources) is that packaging after the tree is tagged > is largely a game of catch-up, and is a stupid reason to throw away the > release tag because they've fallen out-of-sync.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that either rpm or pkg packaging are anywhere near as complex as the Windows packaging. The pkg packaging is trivial, and unlikely to see any changes in the near future. Removing the rpm packaging from the tarball breaks "rpmbuild -tb <tarball>" and so doing violates the principle of least astonishment for rpm users. One size definitely doesn't fit all. Regards, Graham --
