SPECS: fortunes-pl.spec - add todo

Shad Sterling me at shadsterling.com
Sun Jan 6 17:03:36 CET 2008


Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 2008/1/6, Bartosz Taudul <wolf.pld at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:59:06PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>>     
>>> I mean generators are only useful when they make your work easier. If
>>> it's easier to fix and maintain the result than to fix the generator
>>> then it shouldn't be a real problem.
>>>       
>> fortunes-pl.spec generator is really simple. It's just concatenating
>> spec parts, with one loop for the subpackages. I don't understand why it
>> is easier to change something in fortunes-pl.spec than in one of the
>> spec parts used by generator. Take a look, this file is part of
>> generator:
>>
>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fortunes-pl/SPEC/spec-template-header?rev=1.5;content-type=text%2Fplain
>>     
>
> Ah, ok then porting the changes should be really straightforward. I
> thought it involved some more magic in the process.
>   

How bout putting a brief explanation of the generator in the final .spec 
so the next guy doesn't have the same misunderstanding?


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