[perl #50518] [RFC] Is the "rpms" target dead?

[Christoph Otto via RT]

On Sun Nov 23 18:35:19 2008, wayland wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> 
> > Is there someone on RedHat or Fedora who could take a whack at this?
> 
>  	I'm unsure what the @make_and@ in the original does, but if it's
> just
> a statement separator, the attached patch should work on Redhat-
> related
> systems, if people have their RPM build environment set up properly.
> To set
> up your RPM build environment properly, the following works (in bash):
> 
> mkdir $HOME/rpm
> echo '%_topdir' $HOME/rpm >> $HOME/.rpmmacros
> 
>  	(note that in a shell script, you'd probably grep for topdir in
> .rpmmacros before doing anything like this).
> 
>  	I've been a bad boy and only made the patch directly against the
> file,
> not the whole tree, but, seeing as how it hasn't been tested, I'm also
> assuming we don't want to apply it yet either :).
> 
>  	Assuming that I've made a copy of the SVN tree, how do I test a
> compile with this patch applied?
> 
>  	HTH,
> 
> 
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There's been some recent work on rpm-based distros, specifically
OpenSUSE, for which this ticket was started.  Is that enough to close
this ticket?