Looking for testers: RPM 4.9 alpha

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 28 novembre 2010 à 12:15 +0200, Panu Matilainen a écrit :
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> The draft release notes are at http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0
> >
> > 1. This change:
> > | Packages with no files can now omit the %files section and still have
> > | packages generated.
> > is going to make it a PITA to conditionalize the building of subpackages,
> > and it's going to break several existing KDE specfiles very badly (and with
> > no warning!): RPM will silently generate empty subpackages where none is
> > wanted.
> >
> > More precisely, when we wanted to conditionalize or comment out the creation
> > of a subpackage (e.g. in kde-l10n for languages which are currently not
> > available), what we did so far was to %if out only the %files section for
> > the subpackage, not %package or things like %post, and this would reliably
> > omit the subpackage. Now we'll have to %if out ALL sections referring to the
> > subpackage: %package to prevent the subpackage from being built, and all
> > other sections referring to it because they'll error out if the %package is
> > not there.
> 
> This change can be reconsidered.

I use this bit too though I'd rather have an explcit way to kill a
subpackage rather than relying on empty %files

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot