[Fedora-packaging] Additional sources / bundled?

Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 14:48:26 UTC 2012


On 02/10/2012 07:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:14:47AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rex Dieter<rdieter at math.unl.edu>  wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2012 11:03 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a couple of packages that I'm porting from the CCRMA repo. A
>>>> couple of them list some additional sources that contain only content
>>>> (ie a PDF or audio presets / no binaries). Do I still have to create
>>>> separate SPECS for these files?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not necessarily.  stuff like documentation or customized configurations make
>>> sense to *not* package separately.
>>
>> Though you want to make a subpackage for docs if they're huge.
>>
> If the docs are huge (or even just large ;-) *and* they release on
> a slightly different timeframe than the programs, you likely want them in
> a wholly separate package.  Otherwise end users end up updating one or the
> other needlessly.
>
> (ie: docs and programs packages installed.  Update just the program; end user
> ends up having to update both packages since the build created new versions
> of both.)
>
> -Toshio
>
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Thanks all, I believe in the cases I've come up against thus far no 
separate package is required as all are tiny. For conf files/default 
settings I should use %config(no-replace) right?


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