Request for review: perl-Number-Compare

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jul 1 12:48:20 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 13:39 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:32:00 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>- I'd put %check after %install rather than after %clean, so that builds 
> >>on rpm versions not supporting %check could still work.
> > 
> > 
> > Does order of spec sections matter? (I don't think so)
> 
> Current rpm versions run the %check scriptlet after %install, if %check 
> is present.
> 
> Older rpm versions don't understand %check, and will barf when they come 
> across it.

How old is old here?

"Old rpms" also didn't have "perl_archlib" and "perl_vendorlib", while
rpm since FC3 has them.

Also this FE, which currently takes care about FC3, FC4 and FC5, so
anything older isn't of real importance.

Ralf






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