Removing noise from specs
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu May 18 06:33:52 UTC 2006
Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at laiskiainen.org) said:
>
> 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?
I'm all for it.
Bill
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