2011/8/25 Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Buchan Milne wrote:
Well, I have discussed this many times, but there are a number of spec
files
floating around, and most of them don't take upgrading (e.g. 4.2.3 to
4.3.x) into account, and many fix different issues, but almost no-one seems to be willing to discuss what must be fixed, and contribute to fixing the spec file in svn.
I would love to discuss what needs to be fixed to get a good set of rpms for RHEL/centos/fedora. The problem is that many people want rpms for other rpm based distros that I have no experience with. I have seen many attempts in the past to maintain distro agnostic rpms with very limited success.
I have a SuSE spec file that is pretty close to what's provided in the source tarball. I think I can get it to be backwards-compatible (I'm guessing the original is for Red Hat distros) with various %if conditionals. I'd be happy to work as part of a team of spec maintainers to get "the one spec to rule them all". I don't have access to servers with other distros, so I can only test on SuSE/SLES.
Cheers Jeremy