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Re: "#include" equivalent in spec files?



On Thursday, 13 July 2006, at 14:54:16 (-0400),
Jonathan Reed wrote:

> 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.

...and creates a new, independent, unversioned copy of these macros in
every SRPM you create or build.  Or that anyone else builds.  That's
even worse than putting them in the spec file.

Michael

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