'Twas brillig, and Dexter Morgan at 13/06/11 10:31 did gyre and gimble: > Hello, > > i will regurlarly mail this list when things change regarding > packaging rules in rpm itself. > > > First change, since rpm 4.8.0 you don't need to add the %clean > section, if none is on the spec file, a default one will be used .
Nice :) Note to other packagers: Please don't go cleaning (no pun intended) spec files without thinking. As with all changes to rpm specs (such as the infamous buildroot change of '09 :D) making the specs clean for one distro version makes it harder/impossible to backport. This is not always a problem, so we should try and keep things clean if possible, but keep in mind that it can take ~2years before such new features can be used in all packages without worrying (obviously this is the extreme example - for the vast majority of packages, backporting is not really a consideration). All the best Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]