Re: [Fedora-packaging] No modifying %{SOURCE} during rpmbuild

[Cristian Gafton]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Warren Togami wrote:

>  No modifying %{SOURCE*} during rpmbuild. 
Well, DUH!

>  Stuff included in %{SOURCE*} must not be modified during rpmbuild
>  because the resulting .src.rpm will contain the modified version, not
>  original.  You should instead make a copy, then modify that copy.
>
>  Example from gaim.spec:
>  # If not using gnome-open, then default to htmlview
>  +cp %{SOURCE1} prefs.xml
>  if [ "%{gnome_open_integration}" == "0" ]; then
>  -       sed -i "s/gnome-open/custom/g" %{SOURCE1}
>  -       sed -i "s/pref name='command' type='string'
> value=''/pref
>  name='command' type='string' value='htmlview'/" %{SOURCE1}
>  +       sed -i "s/gnome-open/custom/g" prefs.xml
>  +       sed -i "s/pref name='command' type='string'
> value=''/pref
>  name='command' type='string' value='htmlview'/" prefs.xml
>  fi
>
>  Warren Togami
>  wtogami(a)redhat.com
>
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Cristian
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