Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

2011-07-18 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi List Referring to sections of Packaging Guidelines: No longer necessary to explicitly include %defattr at the beginning of % files. and the fact that the BuildRoot tag, eve if defined, is ignored. After reviewing packages I have suggested %defattr is not strictly necessary. I have also

Re: Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

2011-07-18 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: Hi List Referring to sections of Packaging Guidelines: No longer necessary to explicitly include %defattr at the beginning of % files. and the fact that the BuildRoot tag, eve if defined, is ignored. After reviewing

Re: Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

2011-07-18 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
TK == Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: TK They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid TK of them. In particular, some people like to build a package for both TK Fedora and EPEL-5. In this case, a lot of the things that are TK optional in Fedora have to remain

Re: Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

2011-07-18 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: TK == Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: TK They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid TK of them. In particular, some people like to build a package for both TK Fedora and EPEL-5. In