[libvirt] RFC: spec file cleanup ideas

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 06:40 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On the other hand... Why do we ship the .spec file in the first
> > place? Is Fedora, or any other distribution for that matter,
> > using it as-is? Or is it meant to be just for developers'
> > convenience?
> > 
> > Personally, I'd be happy having to maintain a single build
> > system and leaving downstream packaging to distributions. But
> > maybe that's just a consequence of my background in Debian
> > packaging :)
> 
> We do actually share the spec file between RHEL and Fedora with local changes
> largely only for changelog and adding patches. I love the way it works for
> libvirt because it distributes the burden of maintaining packaging among the
> whole team (at least those employed by redhat). Especially when we needed to
> build for RHEL5 up to latest Fedora.
> 
> It also allows for 'make rpm' which is handy for a whole bunch of reasons,
> especially for new contributors on fedora/rhel who want to test a bug fix
> without having to figure out the proper configure invocation to get a working
> setup.

Very well then. Thanks for explaining!

Cheers.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team