Removing noise from specs

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu May 18 06:06:23 UTC 2006


Reminded by Bill's suggestion of putting the default buildroot into rpm 
default macro configuration instead of having to set in each and every 
spec, here's another long time wish of mine:

Have rpm default to %defattr(-,root,root,-) in %files section(s). It's the 
right thing for most packages so it's really just noise in 90% of the 
specs, it's an endless source of silly packaging mistakes (forgetting to 
add it when splitting off a subpackage etc) and those who need special 
permissions can set them with their own %defattr/%attr use.

Pretty please?

 	- Panu -




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