Mass changes to packaging

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 22.08.12 19:17, Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
> > On Wed, 22.08.12 09:25, Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) wrote:
> >> I'll add a me too here. 
> >> 
> >> Any word on if the macros can/will be back-ported to f16/f17? 
> 
> > The preset logic is actually already available in F17, so we could
> > theoretically backport that, but this would mean we'd also have to
> > create and maintain a preset policy file for F17, and that's the bit I
> > am not sure i'd like to do.
> 
> > Without the preset policy the macros would only turn things off after
> > installation, never on.
> 
> What I would want to see in F16/F17 is macros that exactly duplicate the
> previously-standard snippets they are supposed to replace.  Nobody is
> suggesting that the preset stuff ought to go into the released branches;
> only that we don't want to have to maintain different specfile versions
> for the different branches.  And if these things are macros, we should
> not have to.

The thing is that previously we had to different snippets, one for
enabling a service after installation, one for leaving it disabled. With
the macros there is only one which checks the preset policy whether
something should be enabled. Hence we can't really map the old logic to
the new macros, I fear.

Lennart

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