[Fedora-packaging] Should INSTALL file presented in RPM?
Vít Ondruch
vondruch at redhat.com
Tue Oct 1 14:31:55 UTC 2013
Dne 1.10.2013 16:13, Paul Howarth napsal(a):
> On 01/10/13 14:47, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Dne 27.9.2013 07:08, Christopher Meng napsal(a):
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I plan to file tickets(bugs) to notify packagers of including INSTALL
>>> files in RPMs. I think we don't have the needs to ship these files for
>>> install instructions.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? If all you agree I will start doing it now.
>>
>> May be you can consider to add rpmlint warning? Just thinking loud ...
>
> rpmlint has had the 'install-file-in-docs' warning for a long time:
>
> "A file whose name suggests that it contains installation instructions
> is included in the package. Such instructions are often not relevant
> for already installed packages; if this is the case for this file and
> it does not contain any information that is of interest after the
> package has been built and installed, do not include the file in the
> binary package."
>
Thanks, I did not know that. Then no action is needed ;)
Vít
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