On 01/29/2016 04:41 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 01/28/2016 12:02 AM, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> After some fun hacking and many, many complete rebuilds, I've built and
>> submitted for testing a version of epel-rpm-macros for EPEL5 which
>> removes the need for several pieces of RPM junk which have annoyed me
>> for many years now.
>>
>> These macros do the following, entirely by "magic" without requiring
>> the
>> use of any boilerplate or line noise:
>>
>> *) Provide a BuildRoot: tag if one is not specified. (The recommend
>> value
>> from the EPEL guidelines is used.)
>>
>> *) Provide Group: tags for the main package and any subpackages
>> which don't
>> have one. The value used is "Unspecified".
>>
>> *) Automatically provide a %clean section.
>>
>> *) Automatically delete the %buildroot at the beginning of %install.
>>
>> *) Allow the use of %license in the %files section (maps to %doc as
>> usual).
>
> <snip>
>
> Any ETA on rpmlint EL5 update according to this change?
>
This gets dicey because rpmlint is a RHEL package, not EPEL.
It cannot be found in
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/ so no,
it's not a RHEL package.
It has always been in EPEL
wolfy, former maintainer of rpmlint for EL5 and EL6
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A: Yes.
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>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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