Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: simplify and unify source package generation

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> ----- "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Currently the build/ directory can create rpm, debian and source /
> > binary
> > tar packages.  The RPM generation is not used as all distributions
> > prefer,
> > their own spec files, and the binary tarball not used at all as it's
> > a not very useful format.  Reimplement the generation of the source
> > tarballs to use the source-link method used for the debian packages
> > and
> > get rid of the whole old package generation machinery.  Also fix a
> > small
> > bug in the link-based source directory creation which was not
> > including
> > the .pot file for gettext.
> From looking through the patch it seems OK to me.  I haven't had a chance
> to test it out yet, though - but from just eyeballing it, and if noone
> pipes up complaining about the auto-rpm-build removal (I don't expect
> they will, at this stage of xfsprogs life) it all looks good and correct.
>
> cheers.
die rpmbuild die ;)

Long as building tarballs works I'm happy.

-Eric