On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:01:29PM +0000, José Matos wrote: > > [ ] For some undisclosed technical reason that I will never be told > > about. > > To simulate a clean build without any contamination from the surrounding > environment.
If the result is the same working package in both ways the user should not care. It's pretty much C++'s as-if rule. > Also it should be dependent on a pristine package source, that should be > package coming from make dist. After all that is the whole idea of an rpm > project. The idea is to provide binary package. Whether the binary in the package comes from a previously packed and unpacked tgz or whether it comes from a build tree with zero svn diff result is a ivory tower type of discussion... 'pristine sources' is a nice concept, but having a 40 minutes rpm build failing for some obscure reason in the final step does not encourage building packages. Andre'
