[Fedora-packaging] RPM macros

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 10.7.2012 13:48, Paul Howarth napsal(a):
> On 07/10/2012 12:29 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that in revised haskell guidelines [1], there is mentioned the
>> ghc-rpm-macros package, which provides macros.ghc file, which in turns
>> provides some useful macros for packaging of Haskell packages. In Ruby,
>> we provide similar macro files in ruby-devel and rubygems-devel
>> subpackages respectively. Perl has their macros directly in the rpm
>> package itself.
>>
>> This seems to be a bit inconsistent to me. So my question is: shouldn't
>> we standardize some best practices with regards of RPM macros? For
>> example for Ruby, we placed the macros into -devel subpackages, because
>> we believe that it is just development dependency. Any opinions?
>
> Perl has the macros in the main perl package rather than the 
> perl-devel package because arch-independent perl module builds often 
> don't need perl-devel - the packaging split is more fine-grained for 
> perl and tends to become finer with each release as more and more bits 
> are split out into their own subpackages since they have their own 
> lives upstream.

Thank you for your clarification. Actually, it is similar for Ruby. 
Arch-independent packages do not require -devel package because of 
build, but because of macros. And I find it more reasonable then to have 
/etc/rpm/macros.ruby in my runtime system, where I have no use for this 
file.


Vit


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