[mythtv] Building MythTV SVN Packages (rpm)

[Chris Petersen]

> I had already discussed this with buzz in PM. Having a specfile use
> svn co is a very broken concept for rpm, e.g. just like having a
> specfile use wget to get the release sources. rpm (and deb) go through
> lengths to ensure deterministic reproducability.

I'm aware that it's "broken" from a conceptual standpoint.  But for my 
use, it works great.  I don't like the fact that I have to create a 
separate tarball for each svn checkout -- it takes a lot of time to 
compress/uncompress, and takes up extra unnecessary disk space.

My main concern was to clean up the specs posted to the wiki and to fix 
what I saw as a really broken solution (that if there was an svn update, 
you'd have to "build" twice to get the release number correct).

> This specfile has also desynced quite a lot from ATrpms' partly
> refixing bugs fixed long ago or fixing bugs w/o submitting these fixes
> to ATrpms (throwing a complete specfile rewrite with more difflines
> than the original specfile has doesn't count ;).

It's been maintained separately from the atrpms packages for my own 
personal use.  Since it works, I never bothered to update anything to 
match yours, since it really is just a personal use kind of thing (like 
any build-your-own svn spec should be).  Maybe I'll have to take a look 
at what you're doing now and see what I can backport into mine.

-Chris