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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
