Re: More thoughts as we go to git

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 11:41 -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:16:55 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org> wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 08:20 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> > >> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > >>> * Don't carry the RPM spec file in the repository; have it just in the
> > >>> packaging repo instead.
> > >> Why?
> > > 
> > > Bit duplication and having to sync changes across between where the
> > > packages are built (which requires the spec file) and the upstream repo
> > > is a bit annoying at times
> > > 
> > > Jeremy
> > 
> > If I were to pull it from git, I'd be fairly put out to find I didn't 
> > have the build instructions as embodied in the spec file. I see the spec 
> > file as the primary "scripts used to control compilation and 
> > installation of the executable."
> 
> It only runs 'make' and 'make install', so the Makefile(s) are actually the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
> 
> What is useful from the spec file is the BuildRequires, but we could fix that by having a ./configure script that checks the environment we are about to build on.

Keeping autoconf updated is easier/better than a spec file? I don't
think so.

-sv