On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:09:20 -0400 Stéphane Graber <stgra...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 01:03 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > > I recently noticed that the generated tarballs with "make dist" > > were incomplete unless the configure script was run on a machine > > with all possible build dependencies. > > > > That's wrong as you clearly don't need those dependencies to > > generate the tarball. This change fixes that. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgra...@ubuntu.com> > > One file I noticed is included in the main EXTRA_DIST (Makefile.am) > and I'm not sure whether it should be or not is "lxc.spec". > > The resulting tarball contains both "lxc.spec.in" and "lxc.spec" so in > theory we don't need "lxc.spec" in there, but I'm not sure whether the > RPM distros need lxc.spec to trigger the configure and removing it > would therefore create a chicken-and-egg problem. > > Can someone from one of the RPM distros comment on that? Hi Stéphane I believe it is customary to include the .spec in the make dist tarball. Doing so means users can just download the release tarball and do rpmbuild -ta lxc-*.tar.gz to build RPMS from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
