spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 6 00:19:08 UTC 2008


Colin Walters <walters <at> redhat.com> writes:
> I actually started translating some spec files into a new build system
> to solve other problems that Fedora has like rampant copy+paste of
> scriptlets, etc.  You can see some examples of my thoughts here:
> 
> A simple one:
> http://cdn.verbum.org/hotwire.py
> A lot more complex:
> http://cdn.verbum.org/hal.py

So you're suggesting that in addition to knowing RPM's specfile syntax, 
packagers now have to know Python too? That's going to eliminate all the 
non-programmer packagers and also be a PITA for those of us who don't primarily 
program in Python.

        Kevin Kofler




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