Re: Bug with pkg if only a single file is installed

[Quentin Spencer]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 09:54 +0200 schrieb David Bateman:
>
>   
> > > But please note that we might end up generating this dependency lines by
> > > hand. Other people must be able to rebuild our packages, so we don't
> > > fiddle with the dependencies at build time (by build time I mean the
> > > build on the autobuilders). 
> > >   
> > >       
> > Thats fine by me, but having the dependencies for at least one
> > distribution in octave-forge means that future packagers just have to
> > figure out what is the equivalent dependency for their OS, rather than
> > have to chase them down by trying to build the code themselves, with the
> > chance that they might have the dependencies already installed and so
> > not realize that a dependency is need causing some future person much pain.
> >     
>
> This shouldn't happen. Maintainers are expected to build their packages
> in a clean (chroot) environment.

This is true for Fedora too. Furthermore, the spec files for all Fedora 
packages are maintained in CVS, so while an automatically generated spec 
file is a helpful starting point, I would likely use it only once when a 
package is first created, and then never again.


> > Then the question is which is the privileged platform that will have
> > their packages built correctly automatically.
> >     
>
> Throw a dice :)
>
> Or let users send money, the highest bidding wins.
>   

If you're going to make automatically generated SRPMs, maybe you should 
generate them for a distribution that doesn't provide them, like 
Mandriva or SuSE. I have enough experience with RPM packaging that you 
don't need to worry too much about making my life easier by making 
Fedora the default.

Quentin