SRPM's and determining spec file

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Oct 7 16:56:01 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 19:45, Steve G wrote:

> I think its a bad idea to have a spec file contained as a SOURCE.

I'm not a big fan of that idea either, but:

>  It would make
> it confusing to decide which one to use after doing a rpm -i.

"rpm -i" on a source rpm will place the real specfile in %_specdir
(/some/where/SPECS), and all sources in %_sourcedir
(/some/where/SOURCES).




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