[PATCH] xfsprogs: simplify and unify source package generation
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at sandeen.net
Mon Oct 12 19:29:51 CDT 2009
Nathan Scott wrote:
> ----- "Christoph Hellwig" <hch at infradead.org> 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
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