Re: Possible error in rpm-creation automation

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Matt England wrote:

> Possible error in rpm-creation automation in this Makefile (and possibly
> others):
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/packages/rpm/rhel-4/Makefile
>
> If the user has an existing $(HOME)/.rpmmacros file that doesn't have the
> proper content (eg, if they were building other rpms besides Subversion's),
> then it appears that the above make process would break.
>
> I'm writing up a fix for this in my project's rpm Makefile, don't have it
> done yet, but I wanted to mention this here in case I forget. I can
> present my code later; if anyone's interested, just send me a direct note
> to my email addr to remind me.

Matt, please do submit a patch when you have the change ready.

  http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#patches

Thanks, Dan