On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:47 AM Timm Bäder wrote:
>
> > If this change is implemented, manual removal in packages becomes
> unnecessary.
> > Will you do a 'mass change' sweep to drop those removals?
>
> I've already looked at all the packages I listed, so looking at them again
> shouldn't be
> a
> If this change is implemented, manual removal in packages becomes unnecessary.
> Will you do a 'mass change' sweep to drop those removals?
I've already looked at all the packages I listed, so looking at them again
shouldn't be
a problem.
But that's just the list of packages that currently
> This looks like it risks deleting more files than intended. If some
> package uses country codes or domain names in filenames, then this
> change could silently delete files specific to Laos.
None of the packages I inspected looked like they would do this, but I opened
> Rex Dieter writes:
> I'm sure there's a way to opt-out of this behavior (right?)
There is a standard way to opt out of any of the brp scripts:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_brp_buildroot_policy_scripts
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Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> Why would anyone want to do that? (I'm not talking about the case
>> mentioned elsewhere in the thread were a non-libtool file is removed
>> by a mistake, but the actual case where one would want to keep
>> distributing a
* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
> I read the mythbuster page, and I still don't understand if removing
> the file has any effect or not. Will there be any difference in builds
> (for package builds and end-user builds)?
As far as I understand it, linking with static libraries using libtool
will
I think Björn Persson’s concerns are reasonable. Hopefully they can be
easily addressed, since I would be happy to see this change implemented.
At least six packages I maintain or regularly contribute to could be
simplified.
I spot-checked a libtool .la file to see what typical contents
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Why would anyone want to do that? (I'm not talking about the case
> mentioned elsewhere in the thread were a non-libtool file is removed
> by a mistake, but the actual case where one would want to keep
> distributing a libtool file.)
The kdelibs3 plugin loader
On 01/11/2021 14:37, Ben Cotton wrote:
Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in
`.la` in their `make install`. These files are usually unwanted. Many
projects therefore end up with a variation of `find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-name "*.la" -delete` in their `%install section`.
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 09:37:40AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> == Summary ==
> Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in
> `.la` in their `make install`. These files are usually unwanted. Many
> projects therefore end up with a variation of `find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> -name
> Pull request implementing `%__brp_remove_la_files` in the upstream rpm
> repository: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1674
This looks like it risks deleting more files than intended. If some
package uses country codes or domain names in filenames, then this
change could
V Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 02:50:27PM +, Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
> There are quite a few of these "junk files" left around by build systems
> that many packages have to remove:
>
> - .packlist (Perl)
>
These are actually useful for a few Perl tools which need to enumarate
installed CPAN
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 09:37:40AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveLaFiles
>
> == Summary ==
> Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in
> `.la` in their `make install`. These files are usually unwanted. Many
> projects therefore end
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveLaFiles
== Summary ==
Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in
`.la` in their `make install`. These files are usually unwanted. Many
projects therefore end up with a variation of `find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-name "*.la" -delete` in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveLaFiles
== Summary ==
Autools/libtool-based projects frequently install files ending in
`.la` in their `make install`. These files are usually unwanted. Many
projects therefore end up with a variation of `find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-name "*.la" -delete` in
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