Re: Trial git RPM's..

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

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A couple of pieces.  The dist target has assumes git-tar-tree is in the
path.  Making it so you have to have git installed to build the rpm.

Yes. Maybe we could relax that requirement by using "./git-tar-tree" or 
something? That still requires that you have _built_ git to do the rpm, 
but at least you won't have had to install it.

I don't see a problem here. Sure, you need git to build git, so place it in
Build-requires: Need to install the binary to build the next from source,
that's all. Just like gcc ;-)

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The man pages are not built. The build dependencies do not call out
the tools necessary to build the man pages.

Most people don't have asciidoc, and I'm not sure we want to require it. 
Maybe we could have a separate "make man-rpm" target for that?

Would have to be a requirement for building anyway. There is a (not really
nice) SRPM at <http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~terjeros/rpms/asciidoc/>. Will see
to clean it up.
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