src.rpm standards

[Gene C.]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 18:56, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:46, Gene C. wrote:
> > I am not sure what the standard should be but I believe that there should
> > be one.
>
> Heh, good luck on "standard".  I wouldn't recommend what you describe,
> but people will do it anyway.  Heck, I might well have it in one of my
> own packages.

Yes, sigh, but I thought I would mention it.  All the heated discussion over 
on fedora-devel at fedora.us about package "standards" but I see no mention of 
this.

>
> > I assume that the various automated build systems start with a clean set
> > of directories for each build, this may not be true for individuals (it
> > is certainly not true for me).
>
> What we currently use sets %_sourcedir on the rpm command line for each
> package so that it's unique (also so that you check out and verify that
> what you're using is what is on the tag in CVS, etc).  For stuff I do
> that's not in CVS, I have '%_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}' in my
> ~/.rpmmacros.  If it bugs you this much, I really recommend the latter
>
> :-)

Yes, thank you.  I will do this.  In fact, I really like this solution.  Maybe 
Fedora News should add this to next weeks issue ... "Frustrated with strange 
files in SOURCE, then do ..."

It is just that I usually have a number of activities in various stages and 
SOURCE usually get a lot of junk and is difficult to clean without rm -f 
SOURCE/* which will delete stuff I don't want to delete.

> :
> > OK, what do you call think about this?
>
> *shrug*  It's annoying, but I think that the frequency of it (rare to my
> knowledge) coupled with the fact that existing practices on things like
> this are nearly impossible to change make it the sort of thing that you
> just deal with as need be.

It turns out my example of "version" was owned by rhn-applet.  I bugzilla'ed 
it.  I also complained about the spec file name of applet.spec ... that is 
really unique.

Sigh

BTW, what motivated you to move to the Boston area?  I am originally from 
Buffalo, NY and now live in Northern Virginia (and vacation in NC ... last 
New Years in Topsail Beach).  This is about as far north as I want to be.
-- 
Gene