Zenoss Core

Christopher Blunck chris at zenoss.com
Fri Jan 18 19:49:31 UTC 2008


Since we're all OSS here is there any way that Fedora/EPEL changes to  
the .spec can be pushed upstream into our repository?  Or are there  
some proprietary things you guys sometimes add to .spec files to make  
them work in your build environment?


-c

On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:37:26 -0500
> Christopher Blunck <chris at zenoss.com> wrote:
>
>> Built from .src.rpm or built from .spec?
>
> Yes.  (:
>
> For a longer answer... EPEL and Fedora in general maintains a source
> control (CVS) repository of the package .spec file, any patches, and
> the upstream source tarball (in a lookaside cache).  It's from this
> source control that the package is built.  However we have helper  
> tools
> that will allow you to easily import an existing source rpm.  If you  
> so
> desire, your work on the spec and such can happen outside EPEL/ 
> Fedora's
> source control, and when you're ready to do a new build you can import
> the latest source rpm.  You'll have to take care as to not stomp on  
> any
> changes that may have been made directly in Fedora/EPEL though.
>
> -- 
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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