Re: Trial git RPM's..

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Jul 12, 2005, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID: <m1zmssyq0r.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050711210309.GT5324@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> writes:

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> * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote:
>> > And it does not pass my torture test of building rpm's on debian,
>> > but that is not a huge problem.
>> 
>> Ok, why is debian problematic? Is there some missing dependency or 
>> something? I really haven't ever done an rpm, and the git rpm target was 
>> all done by Chris Wright, so I don't have any clue at all. Again, patches 
>> welcome.
>
> Heh debian rpm build...I missed that bit in Eric's message.  Eric, care
> to give details?

Ok paged back in my state. The practical problem is that rpmbuild try to lookup the build dependencies which simply aren't present on debian. Patch will be along shortly once I get the glitches fixed.

One last issue with building packages. Some distros are still shipping GNU interactive tools so git as a package name for the rpm is problematic. At the very least it is extremely confusing that git-0.99 is a more recent package that git-4.3.20.

Eric