[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches

Thu Dec 1 11:28:23 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 01/12/11 10:19 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:58, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> There are times when the backup files from patches applied with
+>> %apply_patches get in the way. It would be nice to be able to disable
+>> backup file generation. e.g. with %apply_patches -n
+>>
+>> Can someone with the appropriate skills do this? I can't remember who
+>> wrote this macro (I wrote the very crappy initial version of it and
+>> someone else made it awesome!), but I have a feeling it was pterjan or
+>> Annsi (or maybe it was pixel before he left...?). Anyway, it's a super
+>> useful macro, but it would be really nice if it could avoid the backups.
+> 
+> I think it was pixel
+
+Yeah, I think I remember now. It was a "parting gift" before he left :)
+
+>> Or another suggestion..... who actually uses these backup files? Perhaps
+>> they can just be dropped completely?
+> 
+> I use them when updating patches
+
+OK, so a more graceful way is needed to deal with the situation when the
+patches are problematic (i.e. a dump installer just installing all the
+files it finds.
+
+My work around is just a simple:
+ find -name "*.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" -delete
+but it could be too greedy in some circumstances.
+
+So I guess an rpmmacro guru is needed.
+
+Col
+
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