[libvirt] [PATCH] build: drop files generated by config.status from tarball

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:45:49AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> The rule of thumb is that any file generated by config.status
> >> is a) reproducible by any user, b) dependent on configure options.
> >> Therefore, it is inappropriate to include such generated files
> >> in the tarball (for proof, Makefile is generated from Makefile.in;
> >> the former is not in the tarball while the latter is).
> >>
> > [...]
> >> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> >> index 0b4ae9d..ecc7435 100644
> >> --- a/Makefile.am
> >> +++ b/Makefile.am
> >> @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ XML_EXAMPLES = \
> >>
> >>  EXTRA_DIST = \
> >>    ChangeLog-old \
> >> -  libvirt.spec libvirt.spec.in \
> >> +  libvirt.spec.in \
> >
> >  Actually that part is wrong. The libvirt.spec need to be in the
> > tarball to allow to build rpms from it. This breaks for example "make rpm".
> >
> >  I reverted that part of the patch,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> Since the Makefile doesn't ship in the tarball but only Makefile.in,
> which requires "./configure" be run before "make rpm" be run, that
> would mean that you don't need the libvirt.spec to be shipped in the
> tarball and you only want libvirt.spec.in and once you run ./configure
> it'll generate libvirt.spec. So in fact reverting that change is
> incorrect.
> 
> Unless of course I'm missing something.

When running:

 rpmbuild --ta  libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz

it will look for 'libvirt.spec' inside the tar.gz, therefore we
*must* include it in EXTRA_DIST & the revert was correct.


Daniel
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