Packaging Guidelines: Why so lax for BuildRoot?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le samedi 22 mars 2008 à 22:52 -0300, Horst H. von Brand a écrit :
> Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

> > There's a huge list of things like this that are basically just
> > copy&paste from the wiki.  I think the right medium-term approach is
> > to generate .spec files from a file like .spec.in as part of the build
> > process.  I've been working on and off on the Makefile.common and koji
> > modifications necessary for this approach, and I hope to have an
> > updated version to post within a week or two.
> 
> Please don't autogenerate .spec through autoconf or some such!

+1 Please do not add another layer of quirky crud to the existing pile
of quirky crud. Fix it at the rpm level and make everyone happy.

It should be obvious that adding decentralised workarounds instead of
fixing the core problem will only result in maintenance and support
hell.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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