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).
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Any ETA on rpmlint EL5 update according to this change?
This gets dicey because rpmlint is a RHEL package, not EPEL.
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