Am Mi., 10. Jan. 2024 um 11:39 Uhr schrieb Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org>: > > Hi, > > A package has its source code embedded as a subdirectory of a larger > piece of software. Sometimes they publish this subdirectory as a > separate tar as a release artifact, but sometimes they forget. > > To avoid depending on their memory (and opening an issue each time), I > would like to simply download the full repo and produce the tar > myself. How should I deal with this in the spec? (Note: building this > subdir as a subpackage in the main one is not a good idea in this > case, it's not an option).
Hi, I assume you don't want to distribute the full tar and simply cd into it the proper subdir during the build? That would be the easiest solution. Alternatively, we (used to?) have several packages which need to clean upstream sources before even committing them to the lookaside cache. scribus comes to my mind, some crypto things were like that in the past. What you typically do is: - Write a simple script which mangles the upstream package.tar and repackages it as package-free.tar or such. - Add the script to dist-git. - comment out the original source line in spec (and the signature if present) - specify "source: package-free.tar" instead and comment on the use of the script - commit only package-free.tar to dist-git That way, everyone can reproduce the used source code from the upstream source code if needed while we only have the actual used source in dist-git (lookaside). Michael -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
