RFC: Tripwire name change

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Sun Feb 22 14:37:42 UTC 2004


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Warren Togami wrote:

>> Anyway, I'll wait a few days, then if there are no major issues, I'll go
>> ahead and change the name of the Tripwire package (actually it's done
>> already, I just haven't posted to bugzilla yet).
>>
>
>It seems like an extremely ugly way to avoid the specspo problem.  If this
>package needs a name change to avoid it, that would mean that this is an
>acceptable solution for other packages too.  There MUST be a better way. 
>Perhaps...
>
>BuildConflicts: specspo
>Conflicts: specspo
>
>... Yeah I am half kidding... but you think of a better solution.

Have the %post automatically strip the tripwire entries out of 
the specspo files.  Not nice, but then it's not nice to have them 
in there in the first place if the package isn't in the 
distribution.

IMHO...


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