[Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
 > Pete Zaitcev wrote:
 > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > 
 > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec	2007-03-29 06:04:16.000000000 -0400
 > >> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@
 > >>  
 > >>  # unpack sparse.
 > >>  if [ ! -d sparse-%{sparsever} ] ; then
 > >> -%setup -T -D -a 3 -q
 > >> +%setup -D -T -q -a3
 > >>  fi
 > > 
 > > This looks nice and to the point.
 > > 
 > > However, it would be great if someone just added the sparse package
 > > to Fedora and the we'd have BuildRequires instead of monkeying with
 > > it on every build. It already takes several hours on my 3GHz Pentium D.
 > 
 > Pete,
 > 
 > I think Dave already mentioned that it *is* planned to add this to 
 > Fedora but he's just waiting on the merge status, I think?

Right. iirc, Matt Domsch has it packaged for extras already.
But core packages right now can't depend on extras packages to build.
Once the core/extras merge is complete, all this stuff goes
away, and just becomes another BuildRequires:

	Dave

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