On Friday 01 February 2008 01:59:19 Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:50 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)
Subject: Re: FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to
distro repos
[...]
I'd recommend you take a look at my Mandriva package first:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hob
bit/current/
The packages basically have no valid errors from rpmlint, or
duplicate files
in distro checks etc (some of which can be seen on my page on
one of the
3rd-party package checking tools for Mandriva -
http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/user-88e1743d6c68@xymon.invalid/rpmch
eck.html note
the absence of Hobbit).
I've had a look at your SPEC file. It doesn't build cleanly under RHEL
due to the Mandrivia specific macros. Can you make it more generic so
as to support other RPM based distros?
IMHO, this is going backwards. Some of these functions for which Mandriva has
standard macros really are required, and implementations need to differ.
However, I have got a macros file which has RedHat implementations of these
macros:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/BackPorts#Building_Mandriva_SRPMS_on_other_distributions
Maybe I need to start proposing standard macros across all rpm-based
distros ...