[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

David Walser luigiwalser at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 17 21:10:18 CEST 2012


D.Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> So, if we want to follow Colin's suggestion, we drop the patch.  The patch changes upstream behavior, and adds the extra usage of %exclude, 
which as Colin and I pointed out, you can just rm things in %install (or patch Makefiles) instead.
> 
> WE DON'T USE ANY PATCH FOR THIS AND WE USE UPSTREAM %EXCLUDE BEHAVIOUR

No need to yell.  I was misled.  We just removed this patch, which made our rpm's behavior the same as rpm5's, but not rpm.org's.  Removing the 
patch matches us to that upstream.  Sorry for the noise :o(



More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list