spec file in tarball (was: Eliminate curl binary)

From: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Date: Jun 3, 2008, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20080603152054.GA19027@camelia.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <m3zlq2zjgz.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:23:21AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz> writes:
> > [...], I do think that including Fedora-style spec files and
> > other distribution-specific files into the tarball is a mistake.
> 
> Not only Fedora (and Fedora derivatives) use RPMs.

I always suspected this is just a wish, I had the implression that the rpm-based distribution has diverged too much.

> Besides, git.spec generated by git Makefile from git.spec.in
> isn't distribution specific.

I often hear this, yet I see e.g. SuSE or Polish Linux creating spec files very different from what is used in Fedora.

> And it allows me to install git
> in a packaging system on and old machine with old Aurox 11.1
> (Polish distribution, no longer active, based on Fedora Core 4),
> with glibc-2.3.5-10.3 via "rpmbuild --rebuild" from .src.rpm.

(I suppose you meant "rpmbuild -ta", that's the feature which takes the spec file from the tarball.)

The value of this statement is limited by the fact that it's a fork of Fedora. What value does that spec file bring for Mandrake users, for example?

Happy hacking,
	Stepan