annoyances of building an RPM

Posted Feb 22, 2007 6:29 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: annoyances of building an RPM by branden
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

RPM builds everything from scratch so that you never end up in the situation where the .src.rpm cannot rebuild the .rpm.

annoyances of building an RPM

Posted Feb 23, 2007 11:27 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

This mechanism can be easily circumvented (homework: find at least 5 ways to do so) and thus again we are returning back to policy.

Basically it's Windows approach: we'll forbid you to do this because you don't deserve to have control. Sad to have this misfeature in *nix tool...

annoyances of building an RPM

Posted Feb 24, 2007 0:41 UTC (Sat) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Perhaps I should have said that you can't do it as "Just a quick hack to fix the build, I don't have time to do it right."

If you are determined to evade a proper source package, you can of course.