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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches</H1>
    <B>Pascal Terjan</B> 
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    <I>Thu Dec  1 11:19:11 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:58, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi,
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> There are times when the backup files from patches applied with
</I>&gt;<i> %apply_patches get in the way. It would be nice to be able to disable
</I>&gt;<i> backup file generation. e.g. with %apply_patches -n
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</I>&gt;<i> Can someone with the appropriate skills do this? I can't remember who
</I>&gt;<i> wrote this macro (I wrote the very crappy initial version of it and
</I>&gt;<i> someone else made it awesome!), but I have a feeling it was pterjan or
</I>&gt;<i> Annsi (or maybe it was pixel before he left...?). Anyway, it's a super
</I>&gt;<i> useful macro, but it would be really nice if it could avoid the backups.
</I>
I think it was pixel

&gt;<i> Or another suggestion..... who actually uses these backup files? Perhaps
</I>&gt;<i> they can just be dropped completely?
</I>
I use them when updating patches
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