More unhelpful update descriptions

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Jul 3 12:12:48 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:28:19AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > %changelog -f <changelog_file>
> > %changelog -g <git_repo>
> 
> And, I suppose:
> 
> %changelog -s <Subversion_repo>
> %changelog -c <CVS_repo>
> %changelog -m <Monotone_repo>
> %changelog -h <Mercurial_repo>
> %changelog -a <Arch_repo>
> %changelog -b <Bazaar_repo>

No.  Just implementing -f (local file) solves 80% of cases.  Git most
of the rest.  No one cares about other version control systems.

> > %release_notes -f <release_notes_file>
> 
> And what would that mean? Should that entire web page be copied into the
> update announcement? Including stylesheets and images? Or should the
> update announcement only contain a link to the release notes?

No, -f refers to a local file in the package, as it does for all other
RPM -f options.

Rich.

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