From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:26:16 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: "rpmbuild -ta cogito-0.12.tar.gz" fails
Message-ID: <20050707172615.GJ9046@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <42CD64F9.1010304@research.att.com>

* John Ellson (ellson@research.att.com) wrote:
> So now I have to ask, where does that come from if its not created by 
> "make dist" ?

It's automated by kernel.org mirroring (along with signature
generation).  So .gz is built, uploaded, the rest is automatic.

> Is what I'm asking to do in the above sequence somehow unreasonable?   
> Would it
> be any loss if the Source: line in cogito.spec.in refered to the .gz 
> instead of the .bz2 such that the
> above sequence works for those of us that like to build rpms directly 
> from the git tree?

Yes, I've got a patch for the spec.in, I'll toss that in.

> Alternatively, perhaps "make dist" could generate the .bz2 instead?

No, because of the way kernel.org mirroring works.

thanks,
-chris