Well, I would recommend removing autogenerated dependencies from a
"production" spec file, anyway. I would recommend filling in the proper
Requires (and BuildRequires!!) fields. Of course, there's always going
to be someone who will start whining about why "Requires: perl" is
there, and not "Requires: perl-5-bin-only-without-threads" (or some
such).

-Ian


Mark Amidon wrote:
>
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > On 20 Feb 2001 17:19:39 -0500, Mark Amidon wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > One would also bump the %{RELEASE} for such details as "built for
> > > RedHat" and "built for SuSE"; clearly, the original Source Code is
> > > staying the same.
> >
> > Why would you bump the release number (4) when re-building for another
> > RPM distro? There's nothing in the spec files that I change to rebuild
> > for another distro, as I do all of my changes by building in a vmware
> > machine, which has things defined nicely in a .rpmmacros.
>
> You'd bump the %{RELEASE} "number" just because this is a different
> "release" of the package. For example, do you really want the RedHat
> release of:
> my-splufty-app-1.0beta-1.i386.rpm
> ...to have the exact same name as the release you built for SuSE,
> complete
> with distinct autogenerated dependencies?
>
> If I were the sysadmin of a benchmark operation, and thus had machines
> of different distos in-house, I wouldn't want the various RPM files that
> I downloaded for testing distinguished _only_ by their internal
> contents. In fact, I'd consider it polite of the application programmer
> to put the name of the target disto in the %{RELEASE} name, e.g.:
> my-splufty-app-1.0beta-1_RedHat.i386.rpm
> my-splufty-app-1.0beta-1_SuSE.i386.rpm
> my-splufty-app-1.0beta-1mdk.i586.rpm
> etc.
>
> (Yes, I'm well aware that SuSE has a nasty habit of leaving such details
> as %{VERSION}, %{RELEASE}, and even %{ARCH} out of their files' names.
> That's a different rant.)
>
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