Re: Trial git RPM's..

Chris Wright [off-list ref] writes:

* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote:

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And it does not pass my torture test of building rpm's on debian,
but that is not a huge problem.

Ok, why is debian problematic? Is there some missing dependency or 
something? I really haven't ever done an rpm, and the git rpm target was 
all done by Chris Wright, so I don't have any clue at all. Again, patches 
welcome.

Heh debian rpm build...I missed that bit in Eric's message.  Eric, care
to give details?

Ok paged back in my state.  The practical problem is that rpmbuild try
to lookup the build dependencies which simply aren't present on debian.
Patch will be along shortly once I get the glitches fixed.

One last issue with building packages.  Some distros are still shipping
GNU interactive tools so git as a package name for the rpm is problematic.
At the very least it is extremely confusing that git-0.99 is a more
recent package that git-4.3.20.

Eric

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

One last issue with building packages.  Some distros are still shipping
GNU interactive tools so git as a package name for the rpm is problematic.
At the very least it is extremely confusing that git-0.99 is a more
recent package that git-4.3.20.

Ahh. Dang, I should have remembered this. We should call the rpm 
"git-core-0.99", not just "git-0.99".

Chris, I assume this is just changing the name in the spec-file from "git" 
to "git-core"?

		Linus