On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:44:38AM -0400, Mark W. Alexander wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
`rpm -ta` does not support patches, but I do not think that is a problem because I don't plan to put patch support into bdist_rpm. People who are producing patched RPMs will have to add the patches to the spec file by hand, this is a simple process that involves adding two lines to the spec file per patch and is one of the reasons I tried to keep the spec file as clean as possible. Sold. Upon reflection, given the context of Distutils, patch support does seem kinda silly. That pretty much eradicates the other issues of using -t? vs. -b?. I'll step out of your way now...
My own personal reason is so I can add an option to use bztar for the source code; rpm supports bzip2 with `rpm -ba` but not `rpm -ta`. And I think Greg is right that they shouldn't have to include the spec file in the RPM, it's just a requirement as long as I am using `rpm -ta`, switching to `rpm -ba` would eliminate that to. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware PyNcurses ncurses binding for Python: http://pyncurses.sourceforge.ne