[Fedora-packaging] Packaging guidelines for Emacsen add-on packages

[Rex Dieter]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:47 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> Good lord. No. Thou shalt not query rpm inside rpm.
>>> Disagreed, when done carefully.
>> There is no careful way to do it. It is not safe, it is not predictable,
>> it is not reproducable.
> 
> My experience says otherwise, so would you care to elaborate and back each of 
> those claims up with some concrete examples

Been there, done that.  Echo'ing what spot said, don't.

One concrete example: chroot'd buildroots (like mock).
The rpm version used to create the buildroot (oftentimes) != rpm version 
used inside the root for the query, leads to wierd behavior, failures.

-- Rex