Re: [Quilt-dev] -SPECPARTS directory and ed(1)

[Andreas Grünbacher]

Am Di., 5. März 2024 um 10:20 Uhr schrieb Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 23:19:21 +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> > Am Mo., 4. März 2024 um 23:07 Uhr schrieb Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>:
> > > On Mon Mar 4, 2024 at 8:07 PM CET, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > This isn't a change in quilt, but a change in rpmbuild. From what I
> > > > read, this is part of a new feature which makes it possible to
> > > > dynamically create spec file snippets which add to the original spec
> > > > file. As if rpm spec files where not already nightmarish enough...
> > > > *sigh*
> > >
> > > Anybody any idea how to switch this off. That *-SPECPART
> > > directory is really ugly!
> >
> > See if "quilt setup --slow" still works. That's how this was
> > originally implemented.
>
> When using --slow with a recent version of rpmbuild, the *-SPECPART
> directory is indeed not created, but the command as a whole fails even
> more. rpmbuild is now calling /usr/lib/rpm/rpmuncompress instead of
> tar, unzip or 7zip to extract archives, and "quilt setup" doesn't
> intercept these calls, so in the end no working tree is being created
> at all.

That's unfortunate. In comparison to tar, rpmuncompress has a very
simple command-line syntax, so that should be fixable. The wrapper
script is a sizeable mess already, though ...

Andreas