Re: Trial git RPM's..

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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>

Date

Jul 11, 2005, 20:11 UTC

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<torvalds@osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > A couple of pieces.  The dist target has assumes git-tar-tree is in the
> > path.  Making it so you have to have git installed to build the rpm.

> Yes. Maybe we could relax that requirement by using "./git-tar-tree" or 
> something? That still requires that you have _built_ git to do the rpm, 
> but at least you won't have had to install it.

I don't see a problem here. Sure, you need git to build git, so place it in
Build-requires: Need to install the binary to build the next from source,
that's all. Just like gcc ;-)

[...]

> > The man pages are not built. The build dependencies do not call out
> > the tools necessary to build the man pages.

> Most people don't have asciidoc, and I'm not sure we want to require it. 
> Maybe we could have a separate "make man-rpm" target for that?

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