[Fedora-packaging] Re: Executable "Source:"es

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:41:06PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  On Friday 28 December 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > maybe not an FPC question, but I'll have a go:
>  >
>  > Since F9 Sources in the CVS "lost" their permission bit. For example
>  > the nx specfile has
>  >
>  > | Source11: nxfind-provides.sh
>  > |
>  > | %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
>  > | %define __find_provides %{SOURCE11}
>  >
>  > a classical approach when one needs to extend/alter the default
>  > automatic dependency calculations.
>  >
>  > How can I teach CVS/koji that my Source11 should please get its
>  > execution bit back on?
>  
>  No idea, but personally I think relying on any other permissions to SourceX 
>  and PatchX than read is fragile[0] and should be avoided.  Doesn't this work 
>  (note the "sh")?
>  
>      %define __find_provides sh %{SOURCE11} 
Thanks a lot, the workaround works.

But still there is an issue - obviously the FPC never mandated such a
change, either the infrastructure people made that decision for us or
it's a bug.

I wouldn't mind if the FPC would decide to do so, but I would mind if
other instances silently force such decisions through simply by defacto
methods.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net