{"thread":{"id":"44048","subject":"Missing RPM spec file in tarball","startedAt":"2016-09-09T16:26:29Z","lastAt":"2016-09-11T16:05:48Z","messageCount":5,"participants":["Sergio Martín Turiel","Junio C Hamano","Stefan Beller","Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"301521","messageId":"4c42a1f4-4f03-0fdf-8bd2-8a7f1f978073@accelya.com","threadId":"44048","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Missing RPM spec file in tarball","fromName":"Sergio Martín Turiel","fromEmail":"sergio.martin@accelya.com","sentAt":"2016-09-09T16:19:38Z","receivedAt":"2016-09-09T16:26:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sergio.martin@accelya.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\n\n I am trying to build RPM packages from tarball (release 2.9.3 and \n2.10.0), and i do not find git.spec file, in previous releases i can \nfound it (e.g. 2.8.3).\n\nO.S.: CentOS 7.2\nCommand: rpmbuild -ta git-2.9.3.tar.gz\nResponse: error: Failed to read spec file from git-2.9.3.tar.gz\n\nCan you tell me what I'm doing wrong?\n\n\nThank you very much and best regards, Sergio Martín.\n"},{"id":"301522","messageId":"xmqq37l9dnyd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com","threadId":"44048","inReplyTo":"4c42a1f4-4f03-0fdf-8bd2-8a7f1f978073@accelya.com","subject":"Re: Missing RPM spec file in tarball","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2016-09-09T16:42:34Z","receivedAt":"2016-09-09T16:42:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Sergio Martín Turiel writes:\n\n> I am trying to build RPM packages from tarball (release 2.9.3 and\n> 2.10.0), and i do not find git.spec file, in previous releases i can\n> found it (e.g. 2.8.3).\n>\n> O.S.: CentOS 7.2\n> Command: rpmbuild -ta git-2.9.3.tar.gz\n> Response: error: Failed to read spec file from git-2.9.3.tar.gz\n\nSince ab214331 (\"Makefile: stop pretending to support rpmbuild\",\n2016-04-04) that is used in Git 2.9 and later, i.e.\n\n Makefile: stop pretending to support rpmbuild\n \n Nobody in the active development community seems to watch breakages\n in the rpmbuild target. As most major RPM based distros use their\n own specfile when packaging us, they aren't looking after us as\n their pristine upstream tree, either. At this point, it is turning\n to be a disservice to the users to pretend that our tree natively\n supports \"make rpmbuild\" target when we do not properly maintain it.\n \n Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano \n\nwe no longer ship an outdated git.spec and git.spec.in files. This\nwas done after finding out that nobody noticed that git.spec has\nbeen left broken since around Git 2.8.0 (i.e. we stopped shipping\nREADME without adjusting the reference to it from the git.spec\nfile).\n\n"},{"id":"301523","messageId":"CAGZ79kYu=0ik9W9g5yCbc5142_a2fb1er45TFEZ6RrekZRZM9w@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"44048","inReplyTo":"4c42a1f4-4f03-0fdf-8bd2-8a7f1f978073@accelya.com","subject":"Re: Missing RPM spec file in tarball","fromName":"Stefan Beller","fromEmail":"sbeller@google.com","sentAt":"2016-09-09T16:42:45Z","receivedAt":"2016-09-09T16:42:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stefanbeller@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/455868?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Sergio Martín Turiel\n wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n>\n> I am trying to build RPM packages from tarball (release 2.9.3 and 2.10.0),\n> and i do not find git.spec file, in previous releases i can found it (e.g.\n> 2.8.3).\n>\n> O.S.: CentOS 7.2\n> Command: rpmbuild -ta git-2.9.3.tar.gz\n> Response: error: Failed to read spec file from git-2.9.3.tar.gz\n>\n\nWe deleted the rpm target as it was breaking all the time and not reported\nin a timely manner, i.e. the impression was it was always broken.\n\nSee https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git/+/ab214331cf8c73f8f77540aa996eb8b4938237f2\n\n\n> Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?\n\nNot crying out loud when that commit was discussed on the\nmailing list. ;)\n\n>\n>\n> Thank you very much and best regards, Sergio Martín.\n\nThanks,\nStefan\n"},{"id":"301594","messageId":"alpine.DEB.2.20.1609101014530.129229@virtualbox","threadId":"44048","inReplyTo":"CAGZ79kYu=0ik9W9g5yCbc5142_a2fb1er45TFEZ6RrekZRZM9w@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Missing RPM spec file in tarball","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2016-09-10T08:15:55Z","receivedAt":"2016-09-10T08:16:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi Stefan,\n\nOn Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Stefan Beller wrote:\n\n> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Sergio Martín Turiel\n> wrote:\n> \n> > Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?\n> \n> Not crying out loud when that commit was discussed on the\n> mailing list. ;)\n\nUmm, I think it would be more: \"Not stepping up to maintain the RPM\nspecs\"...\n\n;-)\n\nCiao,\nDscho"},{"id":"301664","messageId":"CAGZ79kYZuiY5Nzuxgs0Yz41NM1xQprL6YjiJaWCMg1szv=fssA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"44048","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.2.20.1609101014530.129229@virtualbox","subject":"Re: Missing RPM spec file in tarball","fromName":"Stefan Beller","fromEmail":"sbeller@google.com","sentAt":"2016-09-11T16:05:41Z","receivedAt":"2016-09-11T16:05:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stefanbeller@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/455868?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin\n wrote:\n> Hi Stefan,\n>\n> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Stefan Beller wrote:\n>\n>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Sergio Martín Turiel\n>> wrote:\n>>\n>> > Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?\n>>\n>> Not crying out loud when that commit was discussed on the\n>> mailing list. ;)\n>\n> Umm, I think it would be more: \"Not stepping up to maintain the RPM\n> specs\"...\n>\n> ;-)\n\nYou are right of course.\n\nThanks,\nStefan\n\n>\n> Ciao,\n> Dscho\n"}]}