Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-25 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Juergen Weigert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any tears if we roll back to the state we had before? No, not at all. It was a nice experience, but in the end not worth the effort. Just über-engineered. Try to keep it simple, also the packaging process. -- Karl Eichwalder RD / Documentation

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-25 Thread Katarina Machalkova
not even all the yast2 packages which contain COPYING twice are fixed even though I filed a bugreport a couple of months ago), Bug #? Pardon me my ignorance, but I haven't see any such bug although I maintain 5+ YaST packages B. -- \ Katarina Machalkova \\\__o

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Vidner
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:13:41AM +0200, Bubli wrote: not even all the yast2 packages which contain COPYING twice are fixed even though I filed a bugreport a couple of months ago), Bug #? Pardon me my ignorance, but I haven't see any such bug although I maintain 5+ YaST packages

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Aug 31, 07 15:04:30 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday, 31. August 2007, Philipp Thomas wrote: How about this (untestet): a) buildrequires licenses missing b) the %doc macro runs after postinstall scripts, so one still has to update the %doc macro specs an easier fix would be to

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote: On Aug 31, 07 15:04:30 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday, 31. August 2007, Philipp Thomas wrote: How about this (untestet): a) buildrequires licenses missing b) the %doc macro runs after postinstall scripts, so one still has to

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:05:56PM +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote: Libzypp supports --nodeps as a fallback solution for installing RPMs. First, it, of course, tries to install an RPM in a normal way, then libzypp tries that with --nodeps automatically. Huh, isn't that already fixed? libzypp must

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Monday, 3. September 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote: Does anybody know if the licenses package had a space saving effect on the media? Well, the GPL roughly takes 3kb of space per rpm on the media. out of a default KDE installation, exactly 256 packages ship a copy of GPL, eating roughly

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Monday, 3. September 2007, Lukas Ocilka wrote: Libzypp supports --nodeps as a fallback solution for installing RPMs. First, it, of course, tries to install an RPM in a normal way, then libzypp tries that with --nodeps automatically. Thats not a reason. we rely on package dependencies

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Monday, 3. September 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote: Does anybody know if the licenses package had a space saving effect on the media? Well, the GPL roughly takes 3kb of space per rpm on the media. out of a default KDE installation, exactly 256

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Handling license symlinks

2007-08-31 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Friday, 31. August 2007, Philipp Thomas wrote: How about this (untestet): a) buildrequires licenses missing b) the %doc macro runs after postinstall scripts, so one still has to update the %doc macro specs an easier fix would be to add a post-prep script hook that will just replace