Re: [Powerpc-utils-devel] Fixes to powerpc-utils.spec.in

[Brian K. <br...@li...>]

>From an end user ease of use perspective, we should probably build
both binary and src rpms and make them available on sourceforge.

-Brian

On 01/22/2010 09:48 AM, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Brad Peters wrote:
>> Spec file was quite out of date.  I added some prep/build/install logic,
>> and corrected for man page name changes.
> 
> Brad,
> 
> How are you building rpms with the spec file?  The current spec file is set up
> to build binary rpms.  It appears that your patch wants to build an rpm with a
> tarball of the source and have the code built on the target machine.
> 
> Perhaps this is the way we should go moving forward.  Previous powerpc-utils packages
> were built as binary rpms since the rpm was not shipped with the distros and the
> target machine to install these on (i.e. servers) was not expected to have a
> compiler installed.  Since powrepc-utils is now shipped with most distros it may
> be time to convert the spec file to not build a binary rpm.
> 
> I'm not sure about the man page changes, I have had no problem with the man pages
> when building a binary rpm.  Perhaps this change is part of the switch to not
> building this as a binary package.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
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>> Signed-off by: Yours truly,  Aka Brad Peters
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