On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Paul Howarth <p...@city-fan.org> 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 boilerplate constructs, though. >> >> %defattr in %files: >> I've been told that even EPEL5 doesn't need this, but still it >> persists. Can someone verify that it really is not required? Why do >> people keep putting it in if so? >> > > The need for this went away with rpm 4.4, so EL-4 needed it and EL-5 does > not. It's probably still there because people can't remember whether it was > EL-5 or EL-6 that removed the need for it, and left it there to be on the > safe side. > And it's not helped by the fact that the version of rpmlint on EL 5 and 6 warns when it's missing.
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