Re: some differences between doc stuff and license stuff
On 03/09/2015 04:58 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: Why? %license also sets a flag which can be queried from the RPM database. I was mistaken about what was happening. After checking another package the behavior has not changed. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Re: some differences between doc stuff and license stuff
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:44:26 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 03/08/2015 07:48 AM, Björn Persson wrote: · Files under /usr/share/doc are automatically tagged as documentation files even if %doc isn't used. Files under /usr/share/licenses are not automatically tagged as license files, so they need to be preceded by %license in file lists. I noticed the change to %doc files just a few days ago. Was this announced? %doc hasn't changed. %__docdir_path is the list of paths where included files are marked as documentation automatically. %license macro usage is covered by: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text Such changes to the packaging guidelines usually are announced by the FPC in their summary mails of what has changed. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Re: some differences between doc stuff and license stuff
On 03/08/2015 07:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: This automatic process is grabbing license files since most projects have them in the /usr/share/doc and therefore negate the usefulness of %license to separate out the license files. Why? %license also sets a flag which can be queried from the RPM database. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Re: some differences between doc stuff and license stuff
On 03/08/2015 07:48 AM, Björn Persson wrote: · Files under /usr/share/doc are automatically tagged as documentation files even if %doc isn't used. Files under /usr/share/licenses are not automatically tagged as license files, so they need to be preceded by %license in file lists. I noticed the change to %doc files just a few days ago. Was this announced? This automatic process is grabbing license files since most projects have them in the /usr/share/doc and therefore negate the usefulness of %license to separate out the license files. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
some differences between doc stuff and license stuff
While introducing %license in my packages I have noticed these
differences that packagers should be aware of, which I haven't seen
documented:
· There is a macro named _licensedir which is analogous to _docdir, but
there is no _pkglicensedir corresponding to _pkgdocdir. Use
%{_licensedir}/%{name} instead.
· Files under /usr/share/doc are automatically tagged as documentation
files even if %doc isn't used. Files under /usr/share/licenses are not
automatically tagged as license files, so they need to be preceded by
%license in file lists.
· RPMlint warns about CRLF line terminators under /usr/share/doc but
not under /usr/share/licenses.
Björn Persson
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