From 7dca66d40744464157970cbbd4fa2c841249e362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume Rousse Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:42:45 +0000 Subject: rename Howto-spec-helper to README --- README | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91b4037 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +From: Frederic Lepied +Subject: [Cooker] spec-helper +To: cooker@linux-mandrake.com +Date: 22 Feb 2000 14:45:21 +0100 + +For information. + +Starting from rpm-3.0.4-0.2mdk, the spec-helper package must be +installed as a dependency of the rpm-build package. + +The spec-helper script is called automatically at the end of the +%install section to compress info and man pages, strip files and +remove backup files from the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT dir. The %install section +can be cleaned off this tasks but the %files section about man and +info pages must be specified without the .bz2 extension but with an * +instead. The goal is to have vendor neutral spec files. + +Example: + +%files +/usr/man/man1/alias.1* + +and not + +%files +/usr/man/man1/alias.1.bz2 + +-- +Fred - May the source be with you \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.1