May 4, 2000
1:44 p.m.
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... mwa