On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:20:51AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:09:02 +0800 > schrieb Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]>: > > Yeah, this is one case. > > > > Someone may also download a kexec-tools tarball from internet, > > and then want to build a RPM. Even git isn't installed in his system, > > the RPM could be built. > > Building the tarball is maintainer work. > The maintainer creates a "clean" tarball to distribute it. > Don't tell me that the maintainer has no git installed. > > End users fetch the generated tarball to build/distribute kexec-tools. > AFAIK the rpm spec file is generated and only available in the generated > tarball. They don't need git. Only the maintainer which generates the > distribution > tarball needs git...
There are many ways to obtain kexec-tools. I'm really not very exited about requiring git to make a tarball. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
