Hi,

On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 16:48:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> are there any generic packaging "style" guidelines for SUSE Linux packages?

Nope not really. There are the SUSE package conventions. This document
has a small part on specfile style. But not too deep. 
 
> More precisely, I have the following questions:
> 
> - Is %buildroot preferred over $RPM_BUILD_ROOT?
>
> - Is %configure preferred over ./configure?

Use what fits you most here.

> - %optflags / $RPM_OPT_FLAGS again:
> 
> Are they "nice to have" things or is not using them a bug that should be
> reported?

RPM_OPT_FLAGS are mandatory.
 
> - run-time and -devel packages
> 
> Is there a general rule for splitting or not splitting library packages into
> run-time and -devel subpackages?

Yes kind of. Always do it except the resulting -devel package is so
small that it makes no sense. Each package slows down building and
installing the system.

Henne

-- 
Henne Vogelsang,      http://hennevogel.de
"To die. In the rain. Alone."
                   Ernest Hemingway

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