[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 01/12/11 10:19 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:58, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are times when the backup files from patches applied with
>> %apply_patches get in the way. It would be nice to be able to disable
>> backup file generation. e.g. with %apply_patches -n
>>
>> Can someone with the appropriate skills do this? I can't remember who
>> wrote this macro (I wrote the very crappy initial version of it and
>> someone else made it awesome!), but I have a feeling it was pterjan or
>> Annsi (or maybe it was pixel before he left...?). Anyway, it's a super
>> useful macro, but it would be really nice if it could avoid the backups.
> 
> I think it was pixel

Yeah, I think I remember now. It was a "parting gift" before he left :)

>> Or another suggestion..... who actually uses these backup files? Perhaps
>> they can just be dropped completely?
> 
> I use them when updating patches

OK, so a more graceful way is needed to deal with the situation when the
patches are problematic (i.e. a dump installer just installing all the
files it finds.

My work around is just a simple:
 find -name "*.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" -delete
but it could be too greedy in some circumstances.

So I guess an rpmmacro guru is needed.

Col

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