Re: spectool v1.0 was: Let us please all stop the whining

[Aleksey Nogin <aleksey nogin org>]

On 02.03.2004 07:59, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> I have renamed the rpm-retrieve.pl script to spectool and put it up on:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/nphilipp/spectool
>
> The biggest change is, it understands --help now and is version 1.0.
>
> For those who missed the great "why macros in Source fields are
> evil/bring world peace" thread on fedora-devel-list, this tool expands
> macros source/patch directives and either lists them or directly
> retrieves the files.

I would like to point people to 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6346 that I filed a 
long time ago asking for rpm (rpmbuild now) to be able to download 
missing source packages. I still think that this is the right solution.

Do people agree? Should that bug be reopened (it's CLOSED  WONTFIX right 
now)?

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