[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches

[D.Morgan]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> '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

i don't remember where ( but i will ask upstream) Panu wrote a mail
explaining how to do like our %apply_patches but w/o the backups.

So we can have 2 macros, ours ( that i will try to propose upstream )
and the one proposed by pany w/o the backups ?