Re: sdcc - Cross Compiler, Needs Packaging Standards?

["Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand inf utfsm cl>]

Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl> wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226795
> > 
> > It appears that a few folks want sdcc, but do the packaging standards
> > for cross compilers and the concern about names being dropped into
> > /usr/bin should be solved first?
> > 

[...]

>    Since Ralf and I agree for 99.9% on my proposal, this really is
>    almost done. The only thing which I want discussed in a wider
>    audience / need more input in is the SRPM issue, quoting from my
>    original mail:
> "The SRPMS for all these packages will most of the time contain the
>  exact same tarbals as the native binutils / gcc / libs
> 
>    Possible solutions:
>    a) Live with the extra diskspace / bandwidth cost this induces upon
>       our mirrors
>    b) *** Warning dirty hack ***
>       Test for the existence of the tarbal in RPM_SOURCE_DIR in %prep
>       and if it isn't there bail with a message howto get the tarbal
>       from the srpms for the native packages. We can use the sources
>       file and the look-aside cache to make the test for the tarbal
>       succeed on the buildsys. Advantages: saves tons of diskspace.
>       Disadvantage: slight inconvienience for people trying to rebuild
>       the srpm's manually. Large inconvienience for people doing
>       automated rebuilds (aurora for example)
> 
> I honestly don't know what todo here. I kinda like solution b),
> except for the pain it causes to aurora and possible others."

You can build nosrc.rpms, by just stating in the .spec, e.g.:

  Source0: some-nice-file.tar.bz2
  ...
  NoSource: 0

The NoSource directive says that Source0 (in this case) is not to
be included in the SRPM.
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