[Mageia-dev] [ANN] The RPM Spec Lingo - Call for Contributions

Tue Dec 18 20:33:24 CET 2012

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:20:52PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> Hi all,
+> 
+> recently, I had to create a .src.rpm for Fedora, and ran into some Mageia RPM
+> SPEC paradigms that I was not familiar with, and had to ask on IRC or search
+> the web. So I decided to make life easier and create something like to ease
+> translating between the distributions: http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting .
+> So see:
+> 
+> * https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia-Mandriva-Fedora-SUSE_RPM_Spec_Lingo
+> 
+> It's currently very much work in progress, and the formatting could use some
+> work, but it's a start. Feel free to contribute - Be Bold and edit.
+> 
+> Regards,
+> 
+> 	Shlomi Fish
+Hi,
+
+Thanks for starting such a page, I think it can be very useful, I just
+hope people don’t start to write spec translators and ditch all our
+policies or differences in implementation (like filetriggers for
+instance)
+
+I don’t have much ideas to complement your work, but for me the most
+striking example of our difference is %mkrel, because every spec out
+there use it, but I’m not sure about their equivalent in other rpm-based
+distributions. It would be great if some kind of standardization could
+emerge from this and help reducing the gap between our specs.
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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