Re: "#include" equivalent in spec files?

[Jonathan Reed <jdreed MIT EDU>]

Because adding it as a %Source ensures that it will be in the SRPM,  
as opposed to simply listing it as a BuildPreReq, which requires that  
you go get it from somewhere, and makes rpmbuild --rebuild a trivial  
one-step process.


On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On July 13, 2006 12:58:54 PM -0400 Jonathan Reed <jdreed MIT EDU>  
> wrote:
> > I think it's poor form to make some random macro package a   
> > requirement to rebuild an RPM.
>
> And how is that different than %include'ing an arbitrary macro  
> file, whose
> versioning you know even less of than if it were an rpm package?
>
> -frank
>
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