Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 8:17 AM Leon Fauster via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> Am 06.05.24 um 13:56 schrieb Florian Festi: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > RPM has deprecated the %patchN syntax in favor of %patch -PN where N is >> > the patch number for a year now. See the RPM documentation for more >> > information [1]. In current RPM versions, this syntax only emits a >> > deprecation warning, but support for this syntax has been removed >> > completely in the upcoming RPM 4.20 release. As it will be added in >> > Fedora soon [2] it is time to switch over to the new syntax now. >> > >> > There are around 1800 packages that still use the old syntax. Later >> > this week/next week, we will run this script [3] over the affected >> > packages >> > [4][5] to update them to the modern patch syntax. For example, the >> > script will change: >> > >> > %patch0 -p1 → %patch -P0 -p1 >> > %patch0005 -p2 → %patch -P0005 -p2 >> > >> >> >> Is this supported by rpm in RHEL8/9 (EPEL8/9 builds)? >> > > Yes. It's been supported for a very long time.
%patch -P is already documented in the 1997 First Edition of Maximum RPM. Here is the link in the 2000 online edition: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/rpm/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-macros.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-WHICH-PATCH-TAG Kevin Kofler -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
