Re: [AUCTeX-devel] rpmbuild -ta $(RPM_SIGN) ...

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 04 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>> +RPM_SIGN = --sign
> [...]
>>>  rpm-builds:
>>> -   rpmbuild -ta --sign $(FTPDIR)/auctex-$(TAG).tar.gz
>>> +   rpmbuild -ta $(RPM_SIGN) $(FTPDIR)/auctex-$(TAG).tar.gz
>>>     cp $(RPMROOT)/{RPMS/noarch/auctex-emacs,SRPMS/auctex}-$(TAG)[.-]* 
>>> $(FTPDIR)
>
>> Uh, what's the purpose?  Those are targets explicitly for maintainers,
>> and we don't want unsigned RPMs to be uploaded.  Am I missing
>> something here?
>
> It simplifies testing and providing automated (unsigned) RPM
> snapshots.

I don't think that such an RPM should be copied to the upload
directory, then.  The upload directory should only contain stuff that
indeed is suitable and intended for upload.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum