Bootstraping a package

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:23:07PM +0100, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Would anyone be angry at me if I bootstrapped a package by encapsulating
> a binary rpm into srpm, importing it in CVS, building, and then
> rebuilding against itself?
> 
> (The package in question is OpenJDK, which will be ready in a few days;
> hopefully one or two. It needs either itself or gcj 1.5.0 to build, and
> currently we only have gcj 1.4.2).

It is even in the guidelines:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-c23c2cd3782be842dc7ab40c35199c07cfbfe347

You should ask the FPC in theory.

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Pat