Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2007-10-22T12:03:32, Andrew Beekhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> actually debian does need to be in its current location - which is why
>> i thought to ask :-)
>
> Why?
>
> And maybe a symlink would suffice, if debian insists? (Not that it
> matters, it just might be more tidy.)
Depending on the mechanism, this might or might not work...
> We could fold the Build Service specfile into the tarball as well, but
> maybe that is a stupid idea ;-)
Getting to a single RPM spec file is not a stupid idea. I've taken some
of the code from your specfile, and some from the CentOS and Fedora
specfiles and combined them into one specfile.
No doubt it still needs more work, but it's much closer than you might
think.
I know we have had our disagreements on this, but I've spent a lot of
effort and moved a long way towards a compromise arrangement - which
should allow you to mechanically produce SUSE specfiles from the current
specfile - without taking away any of the flexibility of the current
arrangement, or the ability to tailor the result to the SUSE build system.
If you need to add those to the SUSE repository as a source file (which
I believe you do), of course you can do that - and it will be trivial to
do. But, I'd like to give this idea a fair shot before giving up on
having the flexible build system feed into SUSE's system.
I've talked to Kevin Fenzi (the Fedora maintainer), and he seems willing
to work with me on a common specfile. Unfortunately, he was ill when I
last contacted him, so we haven't gotten the job done yet - and I'm
currently out of the country.
I haven't talked to Johnny Hughes (CentOS maintainer) about this yet,
because I thought I'd deal with one distro at a time. But, since you
inquired, I thought I'd at least let you know what's going on.
--
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me
claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William
Wilberforce
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