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Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2005, 16:27 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Now, I'm not certain how happy RPM would be with having one source RPM 
> generate multiple binary RPM's, so we might have problems with some stupid 
> RPM rules, but I think we should really do this. There's always going to 
> be some extra feature that not everybody needs, but that it would be silly 
> to have its own project for. 
>

RPM is more than happy to do this. It's a standard feature of RPM. The current RPM, however, is structured in a way that makes it somewhat painful, as it depends a little too much on wildcards.

	-hpa
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Message 13 of 24 in “git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)”
  1. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  2. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  5. Do not try installing SVNimport on RPMJunio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2005
  6. Ryan AndersonOct 30, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  9. Chris WrightOct 31, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  16. Martin LanghoffOct 31, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  18. Martin LanghoffOct 31, 2005
  19. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  20. David LangOct 31, 2005
  21. Sebastian KuzminskyOct 31, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  23. Package split: Debian.Junio C Hamano, Nov 5, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005

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