Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposal to explicitly allow dos2unix

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:44:12AM +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
>  Hi.
>  
>  In guidelines in common errors section
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors
>  there is the following phrase:
>  ---
>  This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with sed
>  in the %prep section: %{__sed} -i 's/\r//' src/somefile -- DONT use
>  dos2unix, that can cause build fail on FC3.
>  ---
>  
>  Because FC3 is not supported for long time, I'm proposing to change it
>  to:
>  ---
>  This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with in
>  the %prep section with sed: <code>%{__sed} -i 's/\r//'
>  src/somefile</code> or dos2unix.
>  ---
>  
>  Packaging draft is created at
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Dos2unix
>  and added to DraftsTodo page.
>  
>  Waiting for comments. 
Since RHEL4 is based on FC3, would the dos2unix concerns be valid there
was well?  Presumably EPEL packages are covered by the packaging
guidelines above...

Ray