Re: [Libvir] Fedora spec file changes

Mark McLoughlin wrote: IMHO in isn't very useful. specfiles tend to be non-portable across distros. Usually works ok for small packages without special requirements. For more complex packages alot of little things add up. I've worked for SuSE for a while, so I have seen something which isn't Fedora, trust me ... Build dependencies are only one of many issues. Enabling/disabling services works differently across distros. Integration with distro-specific config tools isn't portable by definition. Also i386 libs on x86_64 are handled radically different by the build system if you compare Fedora and suse. KDE lives in /usr in Fedora, SuSE has it in /opt/kde3 (will change for kde4 though). Lots of little differences in packaging guidelines. Also note that %changelog is the *package* changelog which doesn't make sense at all in the upstream tarball. cheers, Gerd -- http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/