Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Jul 18 19:14:48 UTC 2011


>>>>> "TK" == Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:

TK> They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid
TK> of them. In particular, some people like to build a package for both
TK> Fedora and EPEL-5.  In this case, a lot of the things that are
TK> optional in Fedora have to remain for the EPEL package.

Note that according to our guideline page only RPM releases older than
4.4 require %defattr, which would limit the requirement for it to specs
which need to build unmodified on EL4.

 - J<


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