[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

Wed Jan 19 13:44:35 CET 2011

On 15 January 2011 12:08, Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mandriva.org> wrote:
+> Hi there,
+>
+> I just imported the RPM Spec File Syntax page in the wiki.
+>
+> It’s located here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax
+>
+> Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the
+> beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be
+> imported).
+>
+> Some comments on this page:
+> - Patch naming:
+>
+> I’m not sure we should go that far for the patch naming policy, and in
+> practice it’s not what I’ve seen up till now.
+>
+> Here’s a proposal:
+> Patches must be named in a very explicit manner to make it very clear to
+> what version it was originally applied. To that end, a patch needs to
+> follow the convention of
+> [package_name]-[version]-[description].patch:
+>
+>  * [package_name] is the name of the package it applies against, such
+>  as 'shadow-utils' or 'gnupg'
+>  * [version] is the version of the program this patch was developed
+>  against, such as 1.0. The name of the patch should not change,
+
+I don't agree, if you rediff the patch against version 2.0 the the
+version in the patch name should change; one reason is, it can't be
+applied to version 1.0 any more without restoring the old patch from
+an older SVN rev. or rediffing it again.
+
+[...]
+
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