SOURCES: rpm-macros.java - do not use internal dependency generator

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:02:45PM +0200, glen wrote:
> >> Author: glen                         Date: Wed Apr  4 11:02:45
> >> 2007 GMT
> >> Module: SOURCES                       Tag: HEAD
> >> ---- Log message:
> >> - do not use internal dependency generator
> >>
> >> +# rpm itself doesn't recognize .jar and .class
> >> +%define	_use_internal_dependency_generator  0
> >
> > So it cannot be used on any package containing ELF files.
> > External generators cannot properly mark file colours.
yes. that was just there to get it started ;)

> Correct.
>
> AFAIK, rpm-4.4.8 classifies (by suffix, not perfect) .jar and .class

appears that (at least rpm 4.4.2) calls rpmfcSCRIPT for each file.
could rpmbuild invoke the requires/provider script only once passing (in STDIN) all the file from the same class.

it could speedup the packaging stage. for example script for pythondeps is able to cache $PYVER:

$ time rpmbuild --short-circuit --define '_source_payload w9.gzdio' -bb --define 'clean %{nil}' smart.spec
[...]
real    0m13.337s
user    0m5.130s
sys     0m2.790s

and after changing just to PYVER=2.4:

$ time rpmbuild --short-circuit --define '_source_payload w9.gzdio' -bb --define 'clean %{nil}' smart.spec
real    0m7.877s
user    0m1.750s
sys     0m0.670s


-- 
glen