From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:11:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)
Message-ID: <200511012311.jA1NBGii003792@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <torvalds@osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > The git-core RPM definitiely needs to be split.  Doubly ironic that it's
> > called "core".

> I don't think it's necessarily ironic. It's actually a good thing.
> 
> I think that what we want to have is one _project_ (called "git"), which 
> can generate multiple RPM's ("git-core", "git-svnimport", "git-docs", 
> whatever).

Better cut along outside requirements: git-svn, git-cvs, git-scm-du-jour,
git-gtk. Please _don't_ split out documentation.

> So I think it was good that we called the RPM "git-core". We've just not 
> yet done the obvious thing to create a few _other_ RPM's.

Right.

> Now, I'm not certain how happy RPM would be with having one source RPM 
> generate multiple binary RPM's,

Works fine. It is exactly what is used to build -devel packages. What
doesn't work is doing multiple architectures, e.g. creating
git-core-1.2.3.i386.rpm and git-gitk-1.2.3.noarch.rpm, in one go.
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