Packaging guidelines: buildroot

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 21:10 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :

> Of course it is, but that doesn't help all the legacy/other distros that
> don't set the default in this way. If someone wants to rebuild a
> buildroot-less SRPM on such a system, they'll need to edit the spec file
> or their rpmmacros file, which in the case of end users trying to get a
> package working on their system is a whole extra layer of hassle.

You can solve this part easily by packaging the macro definition in a
separate rpm for legacy distros (jpackage has been shipping its rpm
macros in a separate package since before FC time)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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