New fedora-rpmdevtools: cleanup old stuff

[Gavin Henry]

On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 19:05, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:28 -0500, Toshio wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 18:18 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > I'm preparing a new version of fedora-rpmdevtools.  I'm doing various
> > > cleanups in it, fixing some minor bugs, and will include Nils
> > > Philippsen's spectool in the package.  The new version will be
> > > primarily targetting FC3 and later (although it will still continue to
> > > work with older releases down to RH 8.0 too, some minor features will
> > > be disabled with FC1 and earlier though).
> >
> > Proposed patch to spectemplate.spec that should address this problem:
> >   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-
> > December/msg00838.html
>
> How about if I just remove the "full featured" spec template from
> rpmdevtools, and we provide one with a better coverage, docs and
> annotations somewhere else, eg. Wiki?

I like this idea.

> The template is still hopelessly incomplete for various common packaging
> tasks.  Updating it to cover everything doesn't make sense, it'd be too
> bloated to be really useful as a spec template for anything, really.
>
> [...]
>
> > It also adds killall -HUP gconfd-2 which is known to work in FC3+
> > versions of GConf2.  I haven't evaluated whether it's harmful for pre-
> > FC3 gconf (I don't have pre-FC2 anymore.)
>
> That killall as it was in the patch will cause upgrade failures and
> duplicate leftover packages if there's no gconfd-2 running.  Quick
>
> "fix": killall -HUP gconfd-2 || :
> > This patch could be improved if someone can figure out how to deal with
> > previous packages built with the broken %preun scriptlets.  (As it is,
> > the problem expressed in the cited email will continue when upgrading
> > the set of currently broken packages.)
>
> %triggerpostun could help.  See /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/triggers
>
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