[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

Wed Jan 19 14:58:59 CET 2011

Michael scherer skrev 19.1.2011 15:30:
+> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:44:35PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+>> 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.
+>
+> But that mean we lose history of svn ?
+
+svn mv old_patch_name new_patch_name
+
+and then update new_patch_name to apply correctly.
+
+--
+Thomas
+