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

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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! :-)

Which kind?  I vote for GB pints.  They're bigger then our piddly 16oz
US pints.

josh