Re: [Sheflug] suse source rpms

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "zzzz" == zzzz  <zzzz [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

    zzzz> Does SuSE come with an explanation of their own macro's?
    zzzz> Does SuSE support %{_bindir}, %{_mandir}, etc. use?
    zzzz> Is # neededforbuild a SuSE extention, and how does it differ from
    zzzz> the Prereq: line in Red Hat RPM .spec files?

RPM is Evil.  Check out the changes to bash source _required_ to
support RPM The Next Mutation on Red Hat Rawhide.  So much for the
principle of minimal changes to the upstream sources.

Why don't they just fork[1] their own shell (but that would of course
be RHash) and be done with it?

    zzzz> In short: Are there any SuSE RPM builders out there? 

I suppose you can guess I'm not one....


Footnotes: 
[1]  According to GNU's stated principles, they should not accept
patches to Bash to support one non-GNU program's special demands.
We'll see.

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