On Friday 01 February 2008 01:59:19 Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:50 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) Subject: Re: FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos
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I'd recommend you take a look at my Mandriva package first:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hob
bit/current/
The packages basically have no valid errors from rpmlint, or duplicate files in distro checks etc (some of which can be seen on my page on one of the 3rd-party package checking tools for Mandriva - http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/bgmilne at mandriva.org/rpmch eck.html note the absence of Hobbit). I've had a look at your SPEC file. It doesn't build cleanly under RHEL due to the Mandrivia specific macros. Can you make it more generic so as to support other RPM based distros?
IMHO, this is going backwards. Some of these functions for which Mandriva has standard macros really are required, and implementations need to differ.
However, I have got a macros file which has RedHat implementations of these macros:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/BackPorts#Building_Mandriva_SRPMS_on_ot...
Maybe I need to start proposing standard macros across all rpm-based distros ...