Sourcing one spec from another permissible?
Richard Shaw
hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 14:27:38 UTC 2011
NOTE (just for Jon :): This is for RPM Fusion but the question is a
technical one.
I'm looking at packaging zfs for Fedora (via RPM Fusion) and it has a
single source package but contains two spec files. One for the
utilities (zfs{,-devel,-dracut,-test}) and one for the kernel module
(zfs-modules). The one for the kernel module is a mess of macros and
I'd rather not keep it inline with the main spec that I've gotten nice
and clean/readable.
The only other solution I know of is to create two SRPMS which use the
same source, which I don't like. They may not use any common files so
I guess I could split the source archive but that's not a very clean
method either.
Is it technically possible to "source in" an spec from within a spec?
If so, is it permissible?
Thanks
Richard
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