> > I'd like a way to ensure that packages with no tarball are actually > > meta packages and not packaging errors. So can the specfile have > > something explicit stating this? > > Actually I don't think that any decent package could be built without > tarball accidentally: > Source: pointing to something non-existing. > %setup fails, and also patches cannot be applied. > %build fails. > %install fails. > %files section cannot be satisfied.
We have a use case in MeeGo SDK:under devel:tools:sdk:host, see meego-sdk package. To install the SDK, we use a metapackage because we don't have access to package groups of our supported distributions to pull all the packages we need. Fathi _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
