[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Mon Jun 18 00:18:13 CEST 2012


'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 17/06/12 20:10 did gyre and gimble:
> 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(

Don't worry about the caps, I think the next line (which wasn't quoted)
made it clear that this was a friendly shout :)

If there are issues that confuse people, it's worth mentioning it, so no
need to apologise for the "noise" (I certainly don't consider it noise).

Cheers

Col


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