From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:34:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Trial git RPM's..
Message-ID: <20050711203406.GS5324@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <m1eka574c8.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

* Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com) wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > Ok, I tagged a "v0.99" thing, and pushed it out. I've also made trial 
> > RPM's of it: src, ppc64 and x86. They're build on whatever random machines 
> > I had, and on the ppc64 I chose to do it on my FC4 machine that has newer 
> > libraries than my YDL one. The x86 thing is FC3, I do believe.
> >
> > I haven't really verified the RPM's in any other way than a trial 
> > installation on one machine, and "gitk" seemed to work. Whoop. The idea 
> > being that this is a good way to check whether the rpm target works, _and_ 
> > cogito can have something to build against.
> 
> 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.

Known, and was a reasonable assumption in my environment.  It's simple
bootstrapping issue.

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

That was rather intentional, because the asciidoc package is not common.

thanks,
-chris