Re: tlug: rpms

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Shimpei" == Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com> writes:

    Shimpei> Patches aren't in the .spec file; [...]  You probably
    Shimpei> know that, though, so I'm not sure what you are trying to
    Shimpei> say here.

No, I forgot that.  It's been 3, maybe 4 years since I built anything
from RPM....

    Shimpei> nosrc.rpm is also a great concept: distribute tarballs
    Shimpei> from the rest of the files contained in the .src.rpm
    Shimpei> file.  [...]  Too bad Red Hat doesn't use its own
    Shimpei> idea....

It's not Red Hat's idea; Debian has been doing it that way since day
one, and I'm 99.44% sure _they_ got it from BOGUS.

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