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

[Nathan F. <nf...@au...>]

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

The real problem with this is that the rpms are different than those supplied
by the distros.  For example, the powerpc-utils package is mucked with and
renamed to ppc6-utils on RHEL.  This makes it difficult to provide an rpm that
cleanly applies to a RHEL install base.  Similair situation for Novell, though
may no longer do any mucking around with the package  in the latest release.

Since powerpc-utils is shipped with the distros, I have gone the route of
only supplying source tarballs on the website and having users go through
their distro to pick an installable package.  This also helps avoid the
need to provide packages for debian/ubuntu and other non-rpm based distros.

-Nathan

> 
> -Brian
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> 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 Spec file was quite out of date.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
>>
>>> Signed-off by: Yours truly,  Aka Brad Peters
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