Re: spec file mutations.

[Jason Pyeron <jpyeron pdinc us>]

We manage too many machines, which is made manaable by using up2date.

We push everything as a rpm.

Most "upstream" providers are src rpms, which get a --rebuild and are 
deploed to our differnet channels as needed.

But there are some which are CVS type upstream.

We have a program which gives us a revision marker unique to the working 
copy, which would allow us to reproduce it each time, it is intended to be 
the rpm's release attribute.

A general package would be like so:

Name: package
Version: CVS.Tag
Release: LastModDate.SpecVer




On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:46 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > I am looking for a Frankenstein approach to have rpmbuild -ba SPECFILE
> > modify its specfile such that the new specfile is the one included in the
> > srpm.
> >
> > %prep
> > # mutate the spec file changing only: release and source0
> >
> > any suggestions?
>
> Why are you even wanting to get this to work?
>
> The entire point is to have reproducible builds - what actual problem
> are you trying to solve?  Without understanding that it's hard to
> comment/help...
>
> Paul
>
>
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