Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

quoted

The git-core RPM definitiely needs to be split.  Doubly ironic that it's
called "core".

I don't think it's necessarily ironic. It's actually a good thing.

I think that what we want to have is one _project_ (called "git"), which 
can generate multiple RPM's ("git-core", "git-svnimport", "git-docs", 
whatever).

Better cut along outside requirements: git-svn, git-cvs, git-scm-du-jour,
git-gtk. Please _don't_ split out documentation.

So I think it was good that we called the RPM "git-core". We've just not 
yet done the obvious thing to create a few _other_ RPM's.

Right.

Now, I'm not certain how happy RPM would be with having one source RPM 
generate multiple binary RPM's,

Works fine. It is exactly what is used to build -devel packages. What
doesn't work is doing multiple architectures, e.g. creating
git-core-1.2.3.i386.rpm and git-gitk-1.2.3.noarch.rpm, in one go.
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