[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Fedora-haskell-list] Revised Haskell Guidelines 2008.08.13

[Rajesh Krishnan]

> If we're using cabal-rpm for packaging
> then we really don't need to add rpm macros IMHO.

I am very much in favor of having good set of base macros (under /etc/rpm/).  
I have developed some simple rpms using the macros posted by Yaakov and Jens 
(which needed to be tweaked a bit), and was quite happy with the results. I 
will share those in the following email.

-Rajesh





On 2008-08-28-Thu 12:23:11 am Jens Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bryan O'Sullivan さんは書きました:
> > Frankly, I think that the current version of the guidelines is fine.
> > It's much better to have something not quite perfect where we can make
> > progress than to be permanently stuck. So moving forwards with what we
> > have suits me.
>
> I finally took a deep look at cabal-rpm (never actually used it
> before!;) and realised that that is largely the source of all my
> problems with the current guidelines...
>
> Below is a patch against darcs head which backports most of my changes
> to the guidelines to cabal-rpm.  If we're using cabal-rpm for packaging
> then we really don't need to add rpm macros IMHO.
>
> Thanks for all the comments.
>
> Jens