[virt-tools-list] virt-what : question 4

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:59:04AM +0100, otheus uibk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:18:38PM +0100, otheus uibk wrote:
> > > Question 4: Where is the .spec file and why isn't it in the git repo?
> > > (I apologize if the tone is harsh. I'm just a little shocked that a
> > > RedHat-specific project doesn't have a .spec file).
> >
> > It's in Fedora.  You can get it from here:
> >
> >   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/virt-what.git/
> >
> > The RHEL spec file is forked from this one, and you can get that from
> > the RHEL sources:
> >
> >   https://git.centos.org/summary/!rpms!virt-what.git
> >
> > If we put the spec file into the upstream tree, then that would favour
> > RHEL over other distros that carry virt-what, incuding other RPM-based
> > distros like SuSE.
> >
> 
> Fair enough. Then wouldn't the logical thing to be have a directory inside
> the source repo where all spec files reside? It just seems silly to
> maintain 3 different ...

The problem is that upstream and packaging are different jobs.  The
RHEL packaging spec file (for example) doesn't follow the upstream
release cadence at all.

> Wait, what? There's an entire GIT meta-repository for only RPMs??
> *cries*

Again, upstream != packaging.

Rich.

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