[mythtv] Building MythTV SVN Packages (rpm)

[Chris Petersen]

> It's just as difficult for me to compare these specfiles as it is for
> you. That's why complete rewrites mixing personal style preferences
> with functional enhancements and bugfixes can't be reviewed in a
> comparative way.

When I updated Buzz's spec, I noticed he had a number of changes I 
didn't have in mine.  It took me about 30 seconds to run through the 
atrpms spec file and verify where the changes came from (I have a number 
of lines commented out of mine that the atrpms spec still has enabled -- 
I didn't need them, but presumably there's some build arch that still 
does, so I re-enabled them).  Ether way, it wasn't that hard to see the 
differences between them.  The only major change is in the option setup 
for ./configure.

> Please do it the other way around, it makes more sense that way, and
> the pain to compare two so much changed objects remains with the doers >;)

My specs were made public because I was asked by several people to come 
up with a non-atrpms mythtv package.  Now, I personally don't care who 
is distributing mythtv packages (and let me say to your credit that 
atrpms is by FAR the easiest way to get mythtv installed under fedora, 
and I think the only source for several required build deps), but since 
I like to do things the "right" way and I'm a fanatic when it comes to 
documentation, I followed the fedora packaging guidelines for designing 
the spec and then went fairly overboard in commenting the file so it 
would be user-readable (which, frankly, yours isn't).

I can convert my/buzz's svn spec back into a "release" spec by deleting 
about 5 lines and changing (I think) one, but I don't think that doing 
so would convince you that it's better than what you have because what 
you have fits nicely in your build system and you have every right to 
think that yours is the best solution for you.  You support a far wider 
distribution base than I ever intended to (keeping in mind that I wrote 
the spec for me, and only released it because people asked me to).  What 
the svn spec does is allow people who would otherwise be installing from 
source to install a package.

-Chris