On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> I have to agree with Ben here actually. Using a software package
> manager to manage source code just seems awfully silly to me. I'm
> inclined to think the only reason those features exist is for RedHat
> to automate rebuilding a package to make it easy for their trained
> monkeys, and there are already tools that do that.
I had understood that the point of source rpms was to have a simple way to
automateically build binary rpms for multiple architectures.
For example, I'd imagine a set of Redhat 7.0 source rpms on an nfs server,
and a set of clients including x86, sparc, alpha, ppc, etc, running a
script that ran "rpm --rebuild" on each package from the nfs server to
build the distribution for each architecture.
Scripting this using "./configure;make;make install" would be a lot more
complicated, and also wouldn't deal with packages that don't use the gnu
configure.
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