On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava
<prarit(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.000000000 -0400
> > >> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@
> > >>
> > >> # unpack sparse.
> > >> if [ ! -d sparse-%{sparsever} ] ; then
> > >> -%setup -T -D -a 3 -q
> > >> +%setup -D -T -q -a3
> > >> fi
> > >
> > > This looks nice and to the point.
> > >
> > > However, it would be great if someone just added the sparse package
> > > to Fedora and the we'd have BuildRequires instead of monkeying with
> > > it on every build. It already takes several hours on my 3GHz Pentium D.
> >
> > Pete,
> >
> > I think Dave already mentioned that it *is* planned to add this to
> > Fedora but he's just waiting on the merge status, I think?
>
> Right. iirc, Matt Domsch has it packaged for extras already.
> But core packages right now can't depend on extras packages to build.
> Once the core/extras merge is complete, all this stuff goes
> away, and just becomes another BuildRequires:
And on that blissful day...we're drinking pints! :-)
Which kind? I vote for GB pints. They're bigger then our piddly 16oz
US pints.
josh