On 6/21/07, Greg Swallow greg@runlevel7.ca wrote:
Charlie Brady wrote:
If that is required in order to build, then shouldn't it be listed via a BuildRequires?
Not according to the Fedora guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FullExceptionList
Greg
The real issue here is that somewhere in the distant past someone decided to provide a vendor specific find-lang.sh that allows for symbolic links rather than fixing rpm's find-lang.sh to do this. Maybe they meant to roll it into rpm at some point, but they didn't.
Also, the exception list is not a very controlled way to run things. The idea of build requirements is that you should be able to drive a build soup to nuts through them. Having an exception list doesn't marry to that very well....that said its good to know it was documented.
Thanks...james