On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 08:14:04 -0500
Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 04:20, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:32:58AM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > > On 02/01/2023 21:44, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > > - fedpkg mockbuild
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work correctly (will always use Release: 1) if you run
> > > "rpmbuild -bs foo-bar.spec" which is a very common scenario.
> >
> > "Doctor, it hurts when I do that."
> >
> > 'rpmbuild -bs' is broken. Don't use it.
> >
> >
> Could you please elucidate why the command that people have used for nearly
> 30 years and is the most documented on how to build rpms is broken? And how
> people should use instead when they may be dealing with an environment
> which doesn't allow fedpkg to work? [AKA I am working on a package which I
> want to submit for review so I need to build a @$@$% src RPM somehow and I
> am being told I can't use the built in command to do so]
I wonder whether we should start recommending "rpkg" instead of plain
"rpmbuild" for the initial/non-dist-git work on rpms ... I am finding it
quite useful/powerful.
Dan
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