spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Mar 5 18:56:23 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:55 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Failing that, the right thing in the new system would be for the
> packaging process to include a script to transform the upstream
> version
> sequence into one compatible with RPM.  Say versionscript.py.  That
> will
> be run at build time on the Version: field to determine an
> RPM-compatible version which will get included into the spec.

Yes, but that script isn't going to be pretty. We're talking about some
rather hackish stuff that a human packager can pretty quickly
accomplish.

> > > > Also, we'd be forcing a hardcoded dist tag here. 
> > > 
> > > There's nothing hardcoded; you should be able to override it.
> > 
> > +       (echo -n "Release: " && echo $${release}$(DIST) ...
> > 
> > You're hardcoding the value of the dist tag by default into the
> spec,
> > then generating the SRPM. That means that the SRPM will always have
> that
> > dist value, even if it is rebuilt.
> 
> Oh.  Doesn't it work to change $(DIST) there to be %{_dist}?

That would be much better...

> > Also, since this seems to happen on build operations, it means that
> > packages get a dist tag, even if the packager doesn't want one.
> 
> Do we want packagers to have a choice?

Absolutely.

~spot




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