Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "TK" == Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> TK> They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid
> TK> of them. In particular, some people like to build a package for both
> TK> Fedora and EPEL-5.  In this case, a lot of the things that are
> TK> optional in Fedora have to remain for the EPEL package.
> 
> Note that according to our guideline page only RPM releases older than
> 4.4 require %defattr, which would limit the requirement for it to specs
> which need to build unmodified on EL4.
> 
Ah... I always forget that -- %defattr is optional in EL-5 but not EL-4
; buildroot is needed even in EL-5.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Distribution_specific_guidelines

-Toshio
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