Source from directory rather than archive

[Panu Matilainen]

On 04/16/2012 06:11 PM, Greg Swift wrote:
> Does no one have a comment on this?
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 13:52, Greg Swift<gregswift at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> So... At least in RHEL5 you can build an RPM where the Source points
>> to a directory instead of an archive file (tar, etc), thus removing
>> the need for the %setup macro.  Is this a feature or a "feature" (read
>> bug) ?

Sounds like a "feature", certainly. Try building a src.rpm from such a 
thing, it'll merrily include the empty source directory as a source (or 
patch).

	- Panu -