Why Source RPMs (SRPMs) Aren't Packaged For Some Platforms

Explains the limitations in providing Source RPMs (SRPMs) for certain platforms due to CMake version requirements and build system dependencies.

MariaDB source RPMs (SRPMs) are not packaged on all platforms for which MariaDB RPMs are packaged.

The reason is that MariaDB's build process relies heavily on cmakearrow-up-right for a lot of things. In this specific case, MariaDB's build process relies on CMake CPack Package Generatorsarrow-up-right to build RPMs. The specific package generator that it uses to build RPMs is called CPackRPMarrow-up-right.

Support for source RPMs in CPackRPMarrow-up-right became usable with MariaDB's build system starting from around cmake 3.10arrow-up-right. This means that we do not produce source RPMs on platforms where the installed cmakearrow-up-right version is older than that.

See also Building MariaDB from a Source RPM.

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