Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jul 9 13:58:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:51:15PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 3) %{_topdir} now defaults to $(HOME)/rpmbuild/, /usr/src/redhat/ is
>    no more.

This = I love you.

> 4) BuildRoot from spec is ignored. Rpm now defaults to buildroot under
>    %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT/

This too.

> 5) Rpm now supports "arch dependencies", so eg. foo-devel dependencies can
>    be expressed correctly. Please wait for FPC recommendations on the
>    subject, this needs a mass rebuild to be usable.

And !!!


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