On 2007-08-31 14:13:34 +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:
> creating the symlink to licenses in the licenses package is curently
> done by including a small script in each spec file, like:
>
> for FILE in COPYING copyright.txt ; do
> MD5SUM=$(md5sum $FILE | sed 's/ .*//')
> if test -f /usr/share/doc/licenses/md5/$MD5SUM ; then
> ln -sf /usr/share/doc/licenses/md5/$MD5SUM $FILE
> fi
> done
>
> This is error-prone (see bug 306681) and adds lots of duplicated code to
> the spec files.
>
> Please add a small script to the licenses package or create a rpm macro
> that creates the symlink. If the rpm macro could also drop in a
> "Requires: licenses", it would be even better.
>
> The specfile should then contain commands like (replacing the example
> above):
>
> %symlink_license COPYING
> %symlink_license copyright.txt
>
> Oh, and please do this ASAP, before more package(r)s include the script
> in the spec file ;-)
what bugnumber is that?
darix
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