[Ltib] Re: where does one get spec files for newer GPP packages?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   while the GPP contains source and patch files for busybox-1.11.2,
> where would one get the corresponding spec file?  or are we supposed
> to whip that up ourselves?
>
> rday

  ok, i think i'm about to answer my own question here.  as i read it,
packages and patches for LTIB are available at
http://bitshrine.org/gpp, while spec files can be obtained from the
LTIB CVS repository.  so having checked out the CVS, i can see the
busybox spec files:

./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.00.spec
./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox.spec
./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.1.3.spec
./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.6.1.spec

  and if i look at that unversioned spec file, it turns out to be for
busybox-1.11.2.  so a couple questions:

1) is there a reason that that 1.11.2 BB spec file doesn't have a
version number in its filename?  not a big deal, i'm just curious as
its contents clearly show that it's for that version.

2) should there be a close correspondence between the packages and
patches in the GPP, and the spec files in the LTIB repo?  i ask since
the GPP contains the tarball and a patch file for BB-1.01, but there
is no spec file for that BB version in the LTIB repo.  not a big deal
since it's so old that no one should be using it anyway, but it
strikes me that, if there's no spec file for a specific version of a
package, that package probably has no need to be in the GPP.  or is
there something else going on that i'm missing?  thanks.

rday
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