[meego-packaging] Figuring out which packages to require

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 7/28/2010 2:51 AM, Pertti Kellomäki wrote:
> Like Fathi noted, we are using cmake, not autotools.

ok fair enough; I got one with qmake from him and added support for that 
to our auto packager
>
> If specify goes snooping around in configure.ac etc., then you should 
> probably document this somewhere in big block letters, as it matters 
> where you run the command. In my case I do not have the .yaml file at 
> the top of the source tree, but in a 'meego' subdirectory. When I want 
> to create the .spec file I do

wait... are you storing the yaml/spec files inside your upstream release 
tarbal?????

that's... weird and likely not a good idea... I'd strongly suggest 
considering to not do that, and keep packaging as part of the 
distribution, and source code for the upstream tarbal
packaging is distribution specific..