[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-27 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- Original Message - > On 01/22/2016 09:10 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >> "DJ" == Dave Johansen writes: > > > > DJ> And it's not helped by the fact that the version of rpmlint on EL 5 > > DJ> and 6 warns when it's missing. > > > > Interesting. Well,

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Paul Howarth
On 22/01/16 03:11, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: 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

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "PH" == Paul Howarth writes: PH> does not. It's probably still there because people can't remember PH> whether it was EL-5 or EL-6 that removed the need for it, and left PH> it there to be on the safe side. That's good to know. I also think there's more than a fair

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Dave Johansen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > On 22/01/16 03:11, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >> 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

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "DJ" == Dave Johansen writes: DJ> And it's not helped by the fact that the version of rpmlint on EL 5 DJ> and 6 warns when it's missing. Interesting. Well, we can fix rpmlint. And I can grep at least the rawhide specfiles for remaining instances, generate a