On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:20:36PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> This has been rehashed a zillion times, but the short answer is
that it's
> not really any good, since the resulting source tree isn't necessarily
> "clean" for the build architecture you expect. Tweaking the source rpm is
a
> bit more learning and a tiny bit more work upfront, but it makes management
> easier (worth sometime) and produces more correct results (priceless).
Nah. The end result is the same. The difference is that making the
Yeah? Which architecture conditionals do you end up with in your source
tree?
src.rpm in FC4 creates a source tree that can be moved to /usr/src.
Making the src.rpm in FC3 (with only source rpm selected in the spec)
creates a source.rpm
"rpmbuild -bp" if you really need that for some reason.
The issue is portability which is a tarball in FC4 vs an rpm in FC3.
I
just think that creating an rpm is more consistent with the Fedora
approach.
Yes, and it's not the approach just to inconvenience people.
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