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

[Jon Masters]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 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:

And on that blissful day...we're drinking pints! :-)

Jon.