On Wednesday 28 January 2004 18:56, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:46, Gene C. wrote:
> I am not sure what the standard should be but I believe that there should
> be one.
Heh, good luck on "standard". I wouldn't recommend what you describe,
but people will do it anyway. Heck, I might well have it in one of my
own packages.
Yes, sigh, but I thought I would mention it. All the heated discussion over
on fedora-devel(a)fedora.us about package "standards" but I see no mention of
this.
> I assume that the various automated build systems start with a clean set
> of directories for each build, this may not be true for individuals (it
> is certainly not true for me).
What we currently use sets %_sourcedir on the rpm command line for each
package so that it's unique (also so that you check out and verify that
what you're using is what is on the tag in CVS, etc). For stuff I do
that's not in CVS, I have '%_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}' in my
~/.rpmmacros. If it bugs you this much, I really recommend the latter
:-)
Yes, thank you. I will do this. In fact, I really like this solution. Maybe
Fedora News should add this to next weeks issue ... "Frustrated with strange
files in SOURCE, then do ..."
It is just that I usually have a number of activities in various stages and
SOURCE usually get a lot of junk and is difficult to clean without rm -f
SOURCE/* which will delete stuff I don't want to delete.
:
> OK, what do you call think about this?
*shrug* It's annoying, but I think that the frequency of it (rare to my
knowledge) coupled with the fact that existing practices on things like
this are nearly impossible to change make it the sort of thing that you
just deal with as need be.
It turns out my example of "version" was owned by rhn-applet. I bugzilla'ed
it. I also complained about the spec file name of applet.spec ... that is
really unique.
Sigh
BTW, what motivated you to move to the Boston area? I am originally from
Buffalo, NY and now live in Northern Virginia (and vacation in NC ... last
New Years in Topsail Beach). This is about as far north as I want to be.
--
Gene