Re: Silent changes in Packaging Guidelines

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 12:24, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 3:57 PM Adam Williamson
>  <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
>  > there, I did it for free. Took one minute.
>
>  Clearly it should be submitted as a PR to the kernel package.
>
>  And another for the glibc package (that
>  one likely will take more than a minute).
>
>  
So glibc will be hard one because it has sections like:
```
 %files -f langpack-]]..lang..[[.filelist langpack-]]..lang..[[
]]))
end

for i = 1, #locales do
   lang_package(locales[i])
end
}
```
and
```
%files -f devel.filelist devel
%if %{glibc_autorequires}
%attr(0755,root,root) %{_rpmconfigdir}/glibc.req
%{_fileattrsdir}/glibc.attr
%endif
```

Looking through the spec files used for rawhide today.. there are 1242
packages which use %{bindir}/* with the bulk of them in golang and perl.
```
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_includedir}/\*' *spec | wc
-l
487
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_docdir}/\*' *spec | wc -l
6
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_mandir}/\*' *spec | wc -l
417
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_bindir}/\*' *spec | wc -l
1242
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_datadir}/\*' *spec | wc -l
3
```

the two small sets are like
```
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_datadir}/\*' *spec
gawk.spec:%{_datadir}/*awk
gnome-pomodoro.spec:%{_datadir}/*/org.gnome.Pomodoro.appdata.xml
htmlcxx.spec:%{_datadir}/*
ssmoogen@ssmoogen-rh:~/GPG/rpm-specs$ egrep '^%{_docdir}/\*' *spec
acpica-tools.spec:%{_docdir}/*/*
assimp.spec:%{_docdir}/*
freecell-solver.spec:%{_docdir}/*
prboom-plus.spec:%{_docdir}/*
sblim-sfcc.spec:%{_docdir}/*
vmod-querystring.spec:%{_docdir}/*
```

I am guessing the pomodoro would be ok and the others should be easyfix.

-- 
Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
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