[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

[Ahmad Samir]

On 15 January 2011 12:08, Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mandriva.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just imported the RPM Spec File Syntax page in the wiki.
>
> It’s located here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax
>
> Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the
> beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be
> imported).
>
> Some comments on this page:
> - Patch naming:
>
> I’m not sure we should go that far for the patch naming policy, and in
> practice it’s not what I’ve seen up till now.
>
> Here’s a proposal:
> Patches must be named in a very explicit manner to make it very clear to
> what version it was originally applied. To that end, a patch needs to
> follow the convention of
> [package_name]-[version]-[description].patch:
>
>  * [package_name] is the name of the package it applies against, such
>  as 'shadow-utils' or 'gnupg'
>  * [version] is the version of the program this patch was developed
>  against, such as 1.0. The name of the patch should not change,

I don't agree, if you rediff the patch against version 2.0 the the
version in the patch name should change; one reason is, it can't be
applied to version 1.0 any more without restoring the old patch from
an older SVN rev. or rediffing it again.

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Ahmad Samir