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

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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).

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.

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.

Having one bigger project means that it's much easier to maintain, and there's less administrative overhead (good maintainers are really hard to find: you should realize how lucky we are to have Junio). Trying to split up the source code into independent projects at this level would just be much more pain than it's worth. But clearly we want to split up the RPM's.

		Linus