Re: Philosophical question: rpmbuild and user input
Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:08:54PM -0500, Richard Siddall wrote: > I know there's a general prohibition on RPMs requiring user input so > that they can be installed unattended. Does the same rule apply to spec > files, so that RPMs can be built unattended? > Yes -- spec files are often built using automated systems like mock. Plus, in the ideal, every build of a spec file generates the same results. Generally what I've done with perl modules that expect input is added a ptch which changes the makefile to just assume the answers I want. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>