On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
On 02/10/2012 07:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:14:47AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
On 02/10/2012 11:03 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
I have a couple of packages that I'm porting from the CCRMA repo. A couple of them list some additional sources that contain only content (ie a PDF or audio presets / no binaries). Do I still have to create separate SPECS for these files?
Not necessarily. stuff like documentation or customized configurations make sense to *not* package separately.
Though you want to make a subpackage for docs if they're huge.
If the docs are huge (or even just large ;-) *and* they release on a slightly different timeframe than the programs, you likely want them in a wholly separate package. Otherwise end users end up updating one or the other needlessly.
(ie: docs and programs packages installed. Update just the program; end user ends up having to update both packages since the build created new versions of both.)
-Toshio
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Thanks all, I believe in the cases I've come up against thus far no separate package is required as all are tiny. For conf files/default settings I should use %config(no-replace) right?
For files that go to /etc, yes, that is the default.
Meanwhile make sure there are no license issues with the extra sources you are including. Sometimes documentation files have different licenses, I even remember seeing non-free documentation that is for free software.
Cheers, Orcan