On 03/27/2013 11:28 AM, Dwight Engen wrote: > 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.
Ok, I'll keep it there then. Thanks -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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