Re: rpm-5.0 released

Michael Jennings skrev, on 05-01-2008 23:19:

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>> Not that I've any quarrel to pick with Jeff Johnson, of all people, but 
>> this is ridiculous.
> 
> For what it's worth, Jeff didn't create that tarball.  Perhaps in
> future you should be less quick to attack people and point fingers, at
> least until you have all the facts.

indeed, my excuses. I seem to have had a severe attack of the grumps at 
that time. No way I'd ever attack Jeff.

> The tarball contains rpm.spec.in, not rpm.spec, because rpm.spec needs
> to be properly generated from a ./configure run to be accurate.

Ok, thanks, I did that.

> Just
> because you blindly run "rpmbuild -ta" against a tarball and start
> complaining when it doesn't work does not constitute a flaw in the
> tarball.

For the record I didn't, I unpacked the tarball and did a 'find' on 
"spec". Read INSTALL, too.

> Either take the 30 seconds required to figure out the
> problem, or wait for someone with more initiative to create a set of
> binary RPM's for your distribution.

I think that might be a long time ... even FC9 (development) is still at 
rpm 4.4.2 and the spec file I generated wants 4.4.7.

Thanks,

--Tonni

-- 
Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl