Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (71 mails)

[Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@xxxxxxxx>]

Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> Detlef Reichelt wrote:
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> > Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 13:38 schrieb Nadia Derbey:
> >
> > > After building my packages using rpmbuild, solving all the rpmlint
> > > complaints, I have tried to build my packages using build.
> > > Everything worked fine, but I'd like to know if it is 'legal' to copy
> > > the $HOME/.rpmmacros into the BUILD_ROOT directory.
> >
> > why not using lbuild (1)? With lbuild, you can put your marcros 
> > in /etc/build/files/10.1/etc/rpm/macros an simple build you rpms 
> > with "lbuild-10.1 foo.spec".
>
>
> On a side note, be very careful what you put into .rpmmacros (or
> etc/rpm/macros with lbuild) because it can cause builds to be
> unreproducible.
> IMO build reproduceability is a very important feature of RPM (well,
> src.rpm's).
>
> Defining %distribution and %package [1] is fine and could even be
> considered good practice, but overriding/adding macros means the src.rpm
> won't build on other hosts/environments than your own.
>
> [1] e.g.:
> %packager Pascal Bleser <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> %distribution SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64)
>
> just my 0.02?

Pascal,

I use .rpmmacros to set the %packager and what is needed for the gpg 
signature (otherwise rpmlint complains about it :-( ).
So, may be my question should have been the following:
How to sign packages when they are built using build (or lbuild).

Regards,
Nadia


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