Re: broken src rpm

[Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer neuralscape com>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:15:28PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:28:56PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > Can't we all just play by the same (macro) rules? :-)
> 
> 'Twould be nice, but is unlikely to happen.
> 
> FWIW, there's per-platform (i.e. vendor) configuration, so in principle
> a
> 	rpm -ba --buildformandrake foo.spec
> could be attempted, but it ain't happening.
> 
> rpm (and me) are somewhat at fault, because I've always been reluctant
> to promote vendor to the same prominence as arch and os.
> 
> Maybe someday ...

I guess that's one of the real positives of going to the XML based spec
files, where you are going to separate out the data (syntactic symantics)
from the methods (scripts, etc.). It seems to me this will enable all
transformations to be straight forward. So working with various vendor
configurations is going to be much more manageable.

cheers,
Karen
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 Karen Shaeffer
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 shaeffer@neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com