I'm now working on some magic macros for EPEL5. Currently (on my machine, at least) you can use %license and don't need BuildRoot:. I'm curious about some other boilerplate constructs, though.
%defattr in %files: I've been told that even EPEL5 doesn't need this, but still it persists. Can someone verify that it really is not required? Why do people keep putting it in if so? Cleaning %buildroot in %install:: Why is is so essential that the buildroot be cleaned as the first line of %install? I think I can make this happen magically but I'm not sure why it's needed at all. %clean What actually goes wrong if %clean isn't there? If it's just some cruft that might be left over after a successful build, then is it really an issue if it's not present? - J< _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
