https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1161 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:19:10 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1161 Would be awesome to stop writing SPECs, they’re boring and useless. It takes a lot of time to write a SPEC. Packaging for Linux takes much more time than creating an installer, it needs to be quicker and smarter 🙂 .

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1152 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:47:25 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1152 Thanks. Testing comment field.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1151 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:01:21 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1151 BTW, please indicate in your spam protection system that the number has to be written with digits!! I’ve been trying to put a comment like five times (writing things like “five” or “f-ive”, when I should have written “5”).

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1150 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:00:03 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1150 It’s very pleasant to finally see that some efforts go against duplication of efforts. I’ve always seen spec files and tools like jhbuild a way of doing the same thing twice.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1149 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:39:31 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1149 and it would break use cases like downloading a -latest.tar.gz link.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1148 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:38:03 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1148 As written my current thinking is that validating, eg. via a md5 (or better sha1) would be an extra service. I do not see why it must be mandatory in the downloader service, since all of this files became anyway part of the source repository. So you can also see afterwards when it has changed.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1147 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:36:39 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1147 Hey Adrian! Very cool! I’m willing to help out.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/03/source-services-001-no-more-writing-spec-files/#comment-1146 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:31:32 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=1803#comment-1146 Please add a mandatory field for a MD5 sum that is required to match that of the downloaded sources
(which could then of course also be used to implement a build-service-side caching mechanism of the
downloads, but that’s secondary).

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