Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-21 Thread Christopher Meng
I first thought it was just kind of something like what gentoo packages do in their ebuilds, but then I also found that it's useless sometimes as described by Richard. Hereby comes a question, do we have any plans of let users install packages from sources(crazy of course...) with bcond defined

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-21 Thread Alec Leamas
Well, lpf ( in package lpf) is about this: it downloads, builds and installs a target package from sources. As of now, there are no user-defined options; no usecase so far. Wouldn't be hard to add if need be. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.comwrote: I first

RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Björn Persson
Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those work and how they interact with a spec file? I want to be able to easily switch an option between

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 01/20/2014 04:24 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those work and how they interact with a spec file? I want to

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those work and how they

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:24:12PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those work and how they interact with a

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Alek Paunov
On 20.01.2014 16:24, Björn Persson wrote: According to the Packaging Guidelines we're not supposed to use those parameters when building the source RPM to be submitted, because they somehow get serialized into the source package. I don't understand this, because I don't submit any source

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 01/20/2014 07:31 PM, Alek Paunov wrote: On 20.01.2014 16:24, Björn Persson wrote: According to the Packaging Guidelines we're not supposed to use those parameters when building the source RPM to be submitted, because they somehow get serialized into the source package. I don't understand

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Alexander Bokovoy
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 01/20/2014 07:31 PM, Alek Paunov wrote: On 20.01.2014 16:24, Björn Persson wrote: According to the Packaging Guidelines we're not supposed to use those parameters when building the source RPM to be submitted, because they somehow get serialized

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 01/20/2014 05:56 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:24:12PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that

Re: RPMbuild mystery parameters --with and --without

2014-01-20 Thread Björn Persson
Ville Skyttä wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Apparently RPMbuild has a pair of parameters --with and --without that can supposedly enable and disable optional features in a package. Has anyone seen any documentation that explains how those