[packagers] Setting up an rpmforge/rpmrepo dev environment

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> Dag, if you're listening I'd strongly prefer rpmforge/rpmrepo to include
> %{?dist} in the specfiles directly :)

Dries and I am not in favor of this.


> I'd also prefer that you only used %dtag to create a disttag ie. now you have
> (from mplayer.spec):
> %{?dtag: %{expand: %%define %dtag 1}}
> %{?fedora: %{expand: %%define fc%{fedora} 1}}
> I'd prefer that you just used %dtag to expand to fcX/fX as appropriate aswell
> as elX instead of what seems to be an extra unecessary step.

Sure, sadly %{fedora} %{rhel} are tags used by Fedora and these have been
added by Matthias to work in the Fedora environment.


> Most of all though, I'd prefer documentation on how to setup an
> rpmforge/rpmrepo compatible buildsystem in just a few easy steps :)

Yes, I would like that as well. But there are a few missing pieces and I
do not have the time to work on this. I hope this is done within the
rpmrepo project though.

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