[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] change OpenAFS-1.2.10 SRPM to work better with RedHat

[Derek Atkins]

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:

> With the extra change I've suggested (plus a couple more that might be useful
> to make building more controllable), this can be automated very easily - from
> outside of the spec file - which is the correct place to do it IMO.

I agree that making it controllable from outside the spec file is a
good idea.  HOWEVER, for my personal sanity I'd like to be able to
just say "rpmbuild -ba openafs.spec" and have it build _EVERYTHING_
for me.

> Another reason for stripping that building against multiple kernel sources is
> that it RPM can't do prerequisite dependency properly otherwise. And not being
> able to do that renders automated package delivery more difficult.

I dont understand what this means..  This sentence does not pass my
wetware English-parser, could you try it again?  I think you mean that
having RPM do the multiple builds itself means you cannot create a
proper BuildDepends line?  Is that what you mean?

> Although it might be nice to have the spec file generate an arbitrary list of
> RPMs for the various kernels that it can only find out about by listing
> /lib/modules, I don't think it's possible from within the spec file.

Why not?  I did it before...  ;)

> David

-derek

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