OCaml Packaging wiki page
Jerry James
loganjerry at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 22:08:49 UTC 2012
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Or is the wiki out of date?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?
Is anybody actually reading this mailing list, or am I just talking to myself?
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Jerry James
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