Build control-center in mock fail

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Mon May 27 12:24:07 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Björn Persson
<bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>> > I'm sure we could ask the FPC to add this to guidelines.
>> > I've filed such a ticket, please feel free to add comments:
>> >
>> > https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/295
>>
>> It's reasonable, but is missing an important feature. "All source
>> materials for the RPM must also be contained in the new SRPM,
>> preferably as source material." This creates a preference for source
>> rather than .jar, .war, or .gem files, but I think that's really
>> desirable.
>
> The requirement to build from source is already explicit:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries
>
> Björn Persson

Thanks for the pointer!

Of course, that leaves out hte problem of "rubygems", ".jar" files,
and other published binary inclusions masquerading as source files in
the SRPM. But it's a clearly written guideline, thank you.


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