----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alo...@redhat.com>
> To: "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimo...@redhat.com>
> Cc: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org, "Itzik Brown" <itz...@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:41:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [vdsm] Problem building vdsm RPM
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimo...@redhat.com>
> > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alo...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org, "Itzik Brown"
> > <itz...@mellanox.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:38:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: [vdsm] Problem building vdsm RPM
> > 
> > The problem with your rpmbuild command is that it's not automatic
> > enough,
> > if you want to automate it you use wildcards (vdsm*.gz) which will
> > build
> > any vdsm tar.gz you find in the directory rather the one you just
> > prepared
> > (which is what make rpm is doing).
> > 
> > It's not that what you're saying is wrong (after all it's what
> > autogen.sh
> > and the Makefile rely upon, and it works for you), it's that what
> > you
> > do
> > manually is already done automatically (with less potential errors
> > and
> > confusion for the newcomers).
> 
> Well, my view is that there is a standard method of creating rpms out
> of source tree.

That is why I pushed for autotools, so experienced people can use it in
all the way they prefer.

> Newcomers that have done this on one project can reuse their
> knowledge to do this in another project.
> 
> There is no need to create custom unique methods to confuse people.

Are you suggesting that "./autogen.sh && make rpm" is "unique"?

-- 
Federico
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