[Fedora-packaging] Filtering Provides for Node.js Binary Extension Modules

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 03/13/2013 10:47 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> Like the equivalent many other languages, Node.js C++ extension
> modules result in unwanted provides that by policy need to be
> filtered,  We definitely want to provide a %nodejs_default_filter
> similar to Perl's %perl_default_filter to make this easy for
> packagers.
>
> However, I understand the old guidelines are outdated, and Perl's
> macro already uses the new version [1].  Should we go ahead and use
> the new version too when implementing %nodejs_default_filter or wait
> for the draft to be approved?
>
> Thanks!
> -T.C.
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFilteringDraft
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I would use the new macro. I guess the old one won't work anyway with 
latest rpm.
I wonder if you have any automatic packaging script, which can turn 
modules into srpms, so you could add the filtering macro automatically 
into the specfile.

Marcela