Provide a script to create a SRPM without having to run configure

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Cloned from Pagure issue: https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/issue/1927

• Created at 2013-05-15 10:37:21 by jhrozek
• Closed as Fixed
• Assigned to lslebodn

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Some build scripts would benefit from the possibility to create a SRPM without having to run configure in order to produce a sssd.spec from sssd.spec.in.

The script would be placed in scripts/ or contrib/ and would substitute the autoconf variables (like @PACKAGE_NAME@ or @PACKAGE_VERSION@) the way the "prerelease-rpms" target does, then run rpmbuild. The rpmbuild invocation would set the RPM flag to enable experimental features, perhaps there could be two targets for experimental and stable.

Comments

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Comment from lslebodn at 2013-05-16 11:01:15

If you want create SRPM you need tarball and spec file.
You don't want to run ./configure, so you can't run make (dist-gzip, dist-bzip2) to generate tarball.[[BR]]
But it is possible to archive files from git tree (git-archive)

Could you write some use cases? I can't see advantages.

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Comment from jhrozek at 2013-05-16 11:44:13

Replying to [comment:1 lslebodn]:

Could you write some use cases? I can't see advantages.

They would like to create a distribution-agnostic SRPM and then rebuild it for all the targets they support.

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Comment from dpal at 2013-05-16 15:38:46

Fields changed

milestone: NEEDS_TRIAGE => SSSD 1.10.0
rhbz: => 0
type: defect => task

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Comment from lslebodn at 2013-05-22 10:11:50

Fields changed

owner: somebody => lslebodn
patch: 0 => 1

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Comment from jhrozek at 2013-05-23 11:04:12

• master: 93aaa44

milestone: SSSD 1.10.0 => SSSD 1.10 beta
resolution: => fixed
status: new => closed

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Comment from jhrozek at 2017-02-24 15:07:56

Metadata Update from @jhrozek:

• Issue assigned to lslebodn
• Issue set to the milestone: SSSD 1.10 beta