Entering freeze for libvirt-6.8.0

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 02:30:32PM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:35 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > If you have the tarball you can trivially generate the source RPM if
> > you need it because the tarball still contains the .spec file. IOW
> > just run
> >
> >   $ rpmbuild -ts libvirt-6.7.0.tar.xz
> >   Wrote: /home/berrange/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libvirt-6.7.0-1.fc32.src.rpm
> >
> 
> I've never tried this before... what does it do if the .spec file is
> non-trivial and includes things expanded by autoconf, or if there are
> multiple different .spec files?

It only works when there is a single .spec file, which is the case with
libvirt tarballs. Expansion of macros is largely irrelevant until you
get the build stage.

> Personally, I have found the libvirt provided spec file limiting - and use
> a distro one like Fedora as a starting point instead.

Errm, the libvirt.spec inside the tarball *IS* the Fedora distro spec.

Regards,
Daniel
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