Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Reimplement pythondeps.sh as parametric macro generators (#1153)

2020-04-04 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
@Conan-Kudo approved this pull request. I acked this on the Fedora side, so here's the same ack on the upstream side. 😄 -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm without database (#1151)

2020-04-04 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
This would essentially make it so rpm can behave the same way dpkg does, and opens us to the same problems dpkg has: * People can and will randomly manipulate files to force the package manager to do weird things (it's even documented in various troubleshooting guides) * It is not possible to at

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Discussion: spec tag order and side-effects (#1161)

2020-04-04 Thread nim-nim
> I tend to be of the opinion that this is to be expected, you need to define > values before you can use it, > But all this does raise questions about the allegedly free order of spec tags > (and sections). Clearly it never was entirely free due to side-effects such > as the above, but it for m

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Discussion: spec tag order and side-effects (#1161)

2020-04-04 Thread nim-nim
The change break specs that relied on early Source definition to workaround the unbounded behaviour of `%description` * SourceX then (sub)package headers → ``` error: Bad source: /var/lib/builder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/%{name}/dejavu-fonts-version_2_37.tar.gz: No such file or directory ``` `%