FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday 01 February 2008 01:59:19 Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:50 PM
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Cc: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)
> > Subject: Re: FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to
> > distro repos

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> > I'd recommend you take a look at my Mandriva package first:
> >
> > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hob
>
> bit/current/
>
> > The packages basically have no valid errors from rpmlint, or
> > duplicate files
> > in distro checks etc (some of which can be seen on my page on
> > one of the
> > 3rd-party package checking tools for Mandriva -
> > http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/bgmilne@mandriva.org/rpmch
> > eck.html note
> > the absence of Hobbit).
> I've had a look at your SPEC file.  It doesn't build cleanly under RHEL
> due to the Mandrivia specific macros.  Can you make it more generic so
> as to support other RPM based distros?

IMHO, this is going backwards. Some of these functions for which Mandriva has 
standard macros really are required, and implementations need to differ. 

However, I have got a macros file which has RedHat implementations of these 
macros:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/BackPorts#Building_Mandriva_SRPMS_on_other_distributions

Maybe I need to start proposing standard macros across all rpm-based 
distros ...