From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:27:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)
Message-ID: <436645D6.3050506@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510310819290.27915@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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