On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Matthew Dawkins wrote: > Honestly, this is kinda arrogant reply. Why deem what is appropriate based on > what Fedora does? It seems that Fedora allows poor pkging if you have to fix > explicit suffixes with "*". >
Having dealt with various compression issues to support "Have it your own way!" (including carrying xz internal) as well as brp-foo mysteriously unportable scripts, well yes, perhaps arrogant. The flaw is that various distro policies (like whether gz/bz2/xz man pages) are intrinsically part of distro build systems, not rpm. RPM has _ALWAYS_ supported the ability to do "Have it your own way!" configuration. The problem with continuing to carry scripts that work for all possible compressions solves no real world problem: every distro chooses/uses one compression and rpm is forced to a union of all possible choices. The better solution is to write one script per-compressor and simplify all this complexity. Eliminating brp-compress.sh entirely and just compressing on build system when reading/adding into payload is less code and likely more robust. 73 de Jeff > What happened to have it your own way? > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > No interest because already there are huge amounts > of breakage making *.spec files tied to per-distro choices > of what compressor to invoke. > > I have to fix issues like this in nearly every Fedora package I look > at, to replace explicit suffixes with a glob in %files manifests. > > Maintain outside of rpm as you wish: what compression is chosen > by various/sundry distros isn't a solvable problem imho. > > 73 de Jeff > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > > > This patch adds support for compressing man & info pages with xz or lzma > > compression. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Per Øyvind > > <rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch> > > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org >
