check-buildroot and check-rpaths to redhat-rpm-config?

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi,
On 4/10/07, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Now that there's activity on the buildsys-macros/redhat-rpm-config front,
> would it be possible to move the following scripts from rpmdevtools to one of
> those packages?
>
> /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
> /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths
> /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths-worker
  I saw few core packages(that I reviewed) and many new packages
coming are also having rpath issues and making these scripts as part
of redhat-rpm-config package is a really a good thing then.

>
> The reason for this is that I'd like to add some new utilities to rpmdevtools
> which come with some new dependencies, and I don't think it's good to have
> the base buildsys package set grow because of those.  And those check-*
> scripts fit better in redhat-rpm-config IMO.
>
> Another approach could be to split those scripts in a rpmdevtools subpackage,
> or move them to a buildsys-* package that is shipped in the normal repos.
   I think we can consider this approach.
>
> Moving them away from rpmdevtools and rpmdevtools away from the base package
> set would also allow purging a few things that get pulled in just because of
> some rpmdevtools dependencies that aren't really relevant in build roots.
>
> Opinions?
>
> --
Regards,
Parag.