On Tuesday 13 of March 2007, Carol Hebert wrote:

> Hi Arkadiusz,
>
> I was working on building the SLES10 32- and 64-bit rpms to add to the
> (excellent :-) collection of rpms some folks on the list have offered
> to supply for v1.8.9 and noticed that the ./contrib stuff no longer
> seems to get added to the rpm.  I went back to look at the Makefile
> and spec file patches you posted and noticed that it appears that your
> patches intentionally bypass the contrib files for this release.  I'm
> sorry I didn't notice this before (although you clearly stated it in
> the comments you sent with the patch) 

> as there is a file in contrib 
> (oem_ibm_sel_map) that IBM requires.

Then it should be installed in datadir/ipmitool IMO. 

> Given the early-release/non-general-use nature often typical of
> ./contrib, I don't know what the best resolution is for this issue and
> am hoping to start a discussion here.  Do we want to put the contrib/*
> files back in the rpms for future releases?  Are there other files in
> there that folks need to have in the rpms or is it only the
> oem_ibm_sel_map file that's needed in which case we could probably
> just move that file somewhere else?

I see no point in placing contrib in binary rpm. Is anyone using anything from 
contrib (beside oem_ibm_sel_map) ?

> Thanks,
> Carol Hebert

-- 
Arkadiusz Miƛkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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