rpm-4.6 and brp-python-bytecompile?

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 30 15:54:49 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:41 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> redhat-rpm-config defines RH/Fedora build policy/configuration. Rpm itself
> >> doesn't give a damn where that configuration comes from and is fully
> >> functional without it. It's just that rpm upstream build "policy" doesn't
> >> match Fedora's.
> >
> > But Fedora's rpm(-build) RPM should really require redhat-rpm-config.
> 
> Well, redhat-rpm-config is required to build "Fedora compliant" packages 
> (whatever that means) but it is not required to build packages generally.
> 
> A semi-reasonable middle-ground might be adding a virtual provide such as 
> "system-rpm-config" to redhat-rpm-config and have rpm-build depend on 
> that. It's not correct either as rpmbuild is functional without extra 
> configuration, but it at least leaves users the option of replacing the 
> Fedora build policy with something else.

 Another option might be to have fedora-packager require
redhat-rpm-config, which is closer to the correct requires and probably
what people expect.

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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora




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