Source from directory rather than archive

[Greg Swift]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:21, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> 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).
>

That is what I was thinking but wanted to gather input about it before
filing a bug.