spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 21:23 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Oh, no...
> >
> > I've spent a little bit of time on the shuttle to/from work hacking on
> > Makefile.common.  The general idea is to remove the Release: and %
> > changelog fields from spec files,
> 
> And then I have to maintain two versions of the spec file -- one for 
> Fedora build system, other for: another distros, another Fedora-related 
> distros, local builds etc...

In my experience, everyone has slightly forked versions of spec files
because they mandate different macros, etc.

I do in fact want to enable cross-distribution sharing of build scripts,
but I see that as a separate, longer term project from improving
Fedora's build process.

I actually started translating some spec files into a new build system
to solve other problems that Fedora has like rampant copy+paste of
scriptlets, etc.  You can see some examples of my thoughts here:

A simple one:
http://cdn.verbum.org/hotwire.py
A lot more complex:
http://cdn.verbum.org/hal.py

The idea is that you'd compile that into a spec file - we're not talking
about changing the binary formats in any way.  But, that's for the
future.  While starting on that I realized that it made more sense to
take an incremental approach of solving some of the more problematic
spec issues.

> Interesting... Perhaps you will propose the automated "Version:" 
> determined by the tarball? Or even tarball's URL?

Actually, yes - that was one of the next steps =)

> Actually, I never fill the cvs changelog. Only the spec's changelog. 

I don't blame you, because having two is very confusing.

> For this, I will prefer to hack with "rpmbuild" at a separate place and 
> to control what is happening immediately.

Well, we can make 'make local' do whatever it is you want - what is
different?