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Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
>>>packagers're expected to be intelligent :-)
>>>
>>>sure, this is an issue, but not a so important one.
>>
>>I never figured out the interest of giving url for sources:
>>- it is not used by rpm
>>- it is not always possible to specify such an url (mirrors, dynamic web
>>pages, etc...)
>>- there is a dedicated rpm tag for specifying software home page
>>- and as mdk policy make us change the file name anyway...
>
>
> you can cut & copy just the beginning of the source url ...
>
AND IF RPM WORKED RIGHT, then:
'rpm -q --qf "%{SOURCE}" --spefile <spec file>'
would actually give you the source url, and I would be able to finish my
bash script which builds packages from Mandrake CVS and the original
source. This would compete with Gentoo's portage stuff. I am sure after
a proof-of-concept is completed, people would see how useful it could
be, and maybe Mandrakesoft would have someone spend a bit of time and
make a gui for it.
And then we would pick things like modified source (in nvtv for example)
very quickly. I will submit a srpm that fixes this today.
I would file a bug in bugzilla, but my existing bug for rpm (clean exit
and package creation when files listed in %doc are missing) has had no
attention or even been acknowledged.
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