On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> >I think it would be a good idea that binary packages (built with rpm) to
>> >automagically include the spec file (and to place it under
>> >/usr/doc/package.../). This is helpfull in 2 situations:
>> > - as an inspiration for new package builders
>>
>> I disagree. It is just extra file clutter on the hard disk that
>> is totally unnecessary. If someone wants inspiration for
>> building packages, the .spec is in the src.rpm. The spec is
>> useless without the rest of the files that it uses to build
>
>Oh, I don't know.
>
>If the kernel binary rpms included the spec used to create them, I'd have a
>rough chance of putting one together myself without downloading the whole
>src.rpm.
How can you compile the kernel without the kernel source code
though? It is needed to compile the kernel (obviously), so I
don't see why someone couldn't just get the Red Hat kernel
src.rpm to start with which contains the source..
>Note; i mentioned kernel as an example. As it's more complex than most, it's a
>good one, but I'm sure you could think of others.
Sure, I can think of similar examples.. postgresql, mysql,
howto's, other complex multipackage things with numerous
packages. Good examples indeed.
The more people talk about it, the more I'm convinced a SPECS dir
on ftp.redhat.com would be nice. That way it is easy enough to
get a given spec file without the whole RPM source if you just
want it to determine a piece of info used to compile,
etc.. Personally I've wanted to download just a spec file
before, because I had tar.gz source for something, and no .spec
to start with. But having the .spec included in the binary
package wouldn't help me because I had no binary package
installed.
Maybe everyone just needs broadband. That is the best
solution. ;o)
TTYL
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