Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (269 mails)

[Christof Hanke <Biber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

[CC'd to Derrick Brashear from openafs.org, I just hope not to end up in his 
SPAM-dump]

sorry for the long silence about the openafs-package on the 
opensuse-buildservice list...
I'd really like to tie the opensuse-build to the official openafs 
distribution.
For this to happen we need some build-system- and repository- dependent 
spec-file, because the spec-file for fedora looks quite different from that 
of SLES9.

I know, in OBS you can use different spec files for each repository, but this 
approach does not scale (I have already 4 of those in my normal SuSE-only 
package).

I see two possibilities for a differentiated approach:

1) make the buildsystem call a script messing up the spec file before the 
actual build starts.
2) use of predefined macro-files.  

I guess something like that will help a few projects, but the question is how 
to define a script-/macro-name to be widely useful.

Anyway, either way requires changes to the build-system.

Way 2) is closer to rpm, but then the provided macros need to reflect other 
macros provided silently by the build system. 
Way number 1) is build-system agnostic and _could_ also be used to brigde the 
gap between .rpm and .deb

Thus, I'd vote for way 1).

Any comments ?
Whatever the outcome I'm happy to make something like this happen and to 
document it :-)

T/Christof 
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