[Fedora-packaging] Additional sources / bundled?

[Orcan Ogetbil]

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