How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 26 05:03:47 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 20:47 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> 2008/9/23 James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>:
> >
> >  _Well done_ for bringing up rpm specfile groups which are obsolete, as
> > I'm sure you know, and have been since before PK existed.
> 
> I've been wondering -- is there any reason we don't get rpmbuild to
> strip the group out of the package metadata when it generates a binary
> RPM?
> 
> Also, right now, rpmdev-newspec still creates a Group field, and even
> prepopulates it for certain templates (e.g. libraries)


it'll be maintained for compat reasons by it is no longer required to
build a package as of the new rpm in rawhide, iirc.

-sv





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