Re: Entering freeze for libvirt-6.8.0
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 02:30:32PM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:35 AM Daniel P. Berrangé
<berrange(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> If you have the tarball you can trivially generate the source RPM if
> you need it because the tarball still contains the .spec file. IOW
> just run
>
> $ rpmbuild -ts libvirt-6.7.0.tar.xz
> Wrote: /home/berrange/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libvirt-6.7.0-1.fc32.src.rpm
>
I've never tried this before... what does it do if the .spec file is
non-trivial and includes things expanded by autoconf, or if there are
multiple different .spec files?
It only works when there is a single .spec file, which is the case with
libvirt tarballs. Expansion of macros is largely irrelevant until you
get the build stage.
Personally, I have found the libvirt provided spec file limiting -
and use
a distro one like Fedora as a starting point instead.
Errm, the libvirt.spec inside the tarball *IS* the Fedora distro spec.
Regards,
Daniel
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