[Mageia-dev] Some news regarding rpm packaging rules : %clean section

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Tue Jun 14 11:21:53 CEST 2011


Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 10:32 +0200, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> On 13 June 2011 11:52, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> > Note to other packagers: Please don't go cleaning (no pun intended) spec
> > files without thinking. As with all changes to rpm specs (such as the
> > infamous buildroot change of '09 :D) making the specs clean for one
> > distro version makes it harder/impossible to backport.
> 
> Note that I want to do such cleaning right now but:
> Err, all mageia distros (both stable 1 & cauldron) are based on rpm-4.8.1
> so we jus canNOT backport to sg using an older rpm...

We did some backport from cauldron to mandriva 2010.2 for our servers,
so I think we should wait until we decide that such backports are no
longer needed.
-- 
Michael Scherer



More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list