Re: RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-04 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> For what it's worth, this isn't the first complaint I've heard about >> the spec files we "maintain" in our tree. > > That is because Nico keeps bringing it up :) Actually,

Re: RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> For what it's worth, this isn't the first complaint I've heard about >> the spec files we "maintain" in our tree. > > That is because Nico keeps bringing it up :) It's been

Re: RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-04 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > For what it's worth, this isn't the first complaint I've heard about > the spec files we "maintain" in our tree. That is because Nico keeps bringing it up :) > In our defense, we do > remove the packages/ directory from the shipped

Re: RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-04 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:39:01AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> I'm happy to submit these as distinct issues for the issue tracker, >> but in the short therm, pulling out the unusable rhel-3 and rhel-4 >> packaging would be a good star

Re: RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:39:01AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I'm happy to submit these as distinct issues for the issue tracker, > but in the short therm, pulling out the unusable rhel-3 and rhel-4 > packaging would be a good start. Feel free to file these issues so this doesn't fall throu

RPM packaging components in trunk out of date and dangerous

2011-07-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
The RPM packaging comonents in trunk/packages/rpm are out of date, unusable, and likely to destroy a developer's build environment. They should either be completely disabled or seriously updated. There are a couple of different issues, which I'll describe in order: * All the Makefiles replace the