OCaml Packaging wiki page

Jerry James loganjerry at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 15:15:48 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm reviewing a submission of an ocaml program.  The spec file has
> this at the top:
>
> %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %global __find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-requires.sh
> %global __find_provides /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-provides.sh
>
> as required by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml#Requires_and_provides.
>  But it seems that those lines are not only unnecessary, but
> detrimental.  Taking them off generates the same Requires/Provides
> (due to /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/ocaml.attr), plus additional ones.  In
> the case of the package I'm reviewing, it's innocuous.  But I have an
> ocaml package that I maintain where the extra Requires/Provides
> generated by omitting those lines appear to be significant.
>
> Is the wiki correct?  Are those lines still needed for some reason?
> Or is the wiki out of date?

Anybody?  Anybody?  Bueller?
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/


More information about the ocaml-devel mailing list