Re: Update brp-compress with support for xz/lzma compression
Honestly, this is kinda arrogant reply. Why deem what is appropriate based on what Fedora does? It seems that Fedora allows poor pkging if you have to fix explicit suffixes with *. What happened to have it your own way? On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: No interest because already there are huge amounts of breakage making *.spec files tied to per-distro choices of what compressor to invoke. I have to fix issues like this in nearly every Fedora package I look at, to replace explicit suffixes with a glob in %files manifests. Maintain outside of rpm as you wish: what compression is chosen by various/sundry distros isn't a solvable problem imho. 73 de Jeff On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: This patch adds support for compressing man info pages with xz or lzma compression. -- Regards, Per Øyvind rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org Developer Communication Listrpm-devel@rpm5.org
Re: Update brp-compress with support for xz/lzma compression
On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Matthew Dawkins wrote: Honestly, this is kinda arrogant reply. Why deem what is appropriate based on what Fedora does? It seems that Fedora allows poor pkging if you have to fix explicit suffixes with *. Having dealt with various compression issues to support Have it your own way! (including carrying xz internal) as well as brp-foo mysteriously unportable scripts, well yes, perhaps arrogant. The flaw is that various distro policies (like whether gz/bz2/xz man pages) are intrinsically part of distro build systems, not rpm. RPM has _ALWAYS_ supported the ability to do Have it your own way! configuration. The problem with continuing to carry scripts that work for all possible compressions solves no real world problem: every distro chooses/uses one compression and rpm is forced to a union of all possible choices. The better solution is to write one script per-compressor and simplify all this complexity. Eliminating brp-compress.sh entirely and just compressing on build system when reading/adding into payload is less code and likely more robust. 73 de Jeff What happened to have it your own way? On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: No interest because already there are huge amounts of breakage making *.spec files tied to per-distro choices of what compressor to invoke. I have to fix issues like this in nearly every Fedora package I look at, to replace explicit suffixes with a glob in %files manifests. Maintain outside of rpm as you wish: what compression is chosen by various/sundry distros isn't a solvable problem imho. 73 de Jeff On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: This patch adds support for compressing man info pages with xz or lzma compression. -- Regards, Per Øyvind rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org Developer Communication Listrpm-devel@rpm5.org
Update brp-compress with support for xz/lzma compression
This patch adds support for compressing man info pages with xz or lzma compression. -- Regards, Per Øyvind rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch Description: Binary data
Re: Update brp-compress with support for xz/lzma compression
No interest because already there are huge amounts of breakage making *.spec files tied to per-distro choices of what compressor to invoke. I have to fix issues like this in nearly every Fedora package I look at, to replace explicit suffixes with a glob in %files manifests. Maintain outside of rpm as you wish: what compression is chosen by various/sundry distros isn't a solvable problem imho. 73 de Jeff On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: This patch adds support for compressing man info pages with xz or lzma compression. -- Regards, Per Øyvind rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org Developer Communication Listrpm-devel@rpm5.org
