[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Mon Jun 18 11:24:09 CEST 2012

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 17/06/12 20:10 did gyre and gimble:
+>> D.Morgan wrote:
+>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
+>>>> So, if we want to follow Colin's suggestion, we drop the patch.  The patch changes upstream behavior, and adds the extra usage of %exclude,
+>> which as Colin and I pointed out, you can just rm things in %install (or patch Makefiles) instead.
+>>>
+>>> WE DON'T USE ANY PATCH FOR THIS AND WE USE UPSTREAM %EXCLUDE BEHAVIOUR
+>>
+>> No need to yell.  I was misled.  We just removed this patch, which made our rpm's behavior the same as rpm5's, but not rpm.org's.  Removing the
+>> patch matches us to that upstream.  Sorry for the noise :o(
+>
+> Don't worry about the caps, I think the next line (which wasn't quoted)
+> made it clear that this was a friendly shout :)
+>
+> If there are issues that confuse people, it's worth mentioning it, so no
+> need to apologise for the "noise" (I certainly don't consider it noise).
+
+of course this was friendly, this "always" is :)
+