On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro>
wrote:
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