Re: broken src rpm

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:34:28PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> 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.

XML ain't gonna help vendors cooperate, no matter what, as open source
vendors is almost an oxymoron.

73 de Jeff

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